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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/ext/extending.tex | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/ext/extending.tex b/Doc/ext/extending.tex index 7016f94..53d90db 100644 --- a/Doc/ext/extending.tex +++ b/Doc/ext/extending.tex @@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ initspam(void) PyObject *m; m = Py_InitModule("spam", SpamMethods); + if (m == NULL) + return; SpamError = PyErr_NewException("spam.error", NULL, NULL); Py_INCREF(SpamError); @@ -365,9 +367,9 @@ is inserted in the dictionary \code{sys.modules} under the key created module based upon the table (an array of \ctype{PyMethodDef} structures) that was passed as its second argument. \cfunction{Py_InitModule()} returns a pointer to the module object -that it creates (which is unused here). It aborts with a fatal error -if the module could not be initialized satisfactorily, so the caller -doesn't need to check for errors. +that it creates (which is unused here). It may abort with a fatal error +for certain errors, or return \NULL{} if the module could not be +initialized satisfactorily. When embedding Python, the \cfunction{initspam()} function is not called automatically unless there's an entry in the @@ -1276,6 +1278,8 @@ initspam(void) PyObject *c_api_object; m = Py_InitModule("spam", SpamMethods); + if (m == NULL) + return; /* Initialize the C API pointer array */ PySpam_API[PySpam_System_NUM] = (void *)PySpam_System; @@ -1362,7 +1366,9 @@ initclient(void) { PyObject *m; - Py_InitModule("client", ClientMethods); + m = Py_InitModule("client", ClientMethods); + if (m == NULL) + return; if (import_spam() < 0) return; /* additional initialization can happen here */ |