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diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex index 3f6e7d6..39f838d 100644 --- a/Doc/api/api.tex +++ b/Doc/api/api.tex @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ \noindent This manual documents the API used by \C{} (or \Cpp{}) programmers who want to write extension modules or embed Python. It is a companion to -\emph{Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter}, which describes -the general principles of extension writing but does not document the -API functions in detail. +\citetitle[../ext/ext.html]{Extending and Embedding the Python +Interpreter}, which describes the general principles of extension +writing but does not document the API functions in detail. \strong{Warning:} The current version of this document is incomplete. I hope that it is nevertheless useful. I will continue to work on it, @@ -109,10 +109,11 @@ be declared. All Python objects (even Python integers) have a \dfn{type} and a \dfn{reference count}. An object's type determines what kind of object it is (e.g., an integer, a list, or a user-defined function; there are -many more as explained in the \emph{Python Reference Manual}). For -each of the well-known types there is a macro to check whether an -object is of that type; for instance, \samp{PyList_Check(\var{a})} is -true iff the object pointed to by \var{a} is a Python list. +many more as explained in the \citetitle[../ref/ref.html]{Python +Reference Manual}). For each of the well-known types there is a macro +to check whether an object is of that type; for instance, +\samp{PyList_Check(\var{a})} is true if and only if the object pointed +to by \var{a} is a Python list. \subsection{Reference Counts \label{refcounts}} @@ -873,11 +874,11 @@ This utility function creates and returns a new exception object. The of the form \code{module.class}. The \var{base} and \var{dict} arguments are normally \NULL{}. Normally, this creates a class object derived from the root for all exceptions, the built-in name -\exception{Exception} (accessible in \C{} as \cdata{PyExc_Exception}). +\exception{Exception} (accessible in C as \cdata{PyExc_Exception}). In this case the \member{__module__} attribute of the new class is set to the first part (up to the last dot) of the \var{name} argument, and the class name is set to the last part (after the last dot). When the -user has specified the \code{-X} command line option to use string +user has specified the \programopt{-X} command line option to use string exceptions, for backward compatibility, or when the \var{base} argument is not a class object (and not \NULL{}), a string object created from the entire \var{name} argument is returned. The @@ -890,11 +891,10 @@ variables and methods. \section{Standard Exceptions \label{standardExceptions}} All standard Python exceptions are available as global variables whose -names are \samp{PyExc_} followed by the Python exception name. -These have the type \ctype{PyObject *}; they are all either class -objects or string objects, depending on the use of the \code{-X} -option to the interpreter. For completeness, here are all the -variables: +names are \samp{PyExc_} followed by the Python exception name. These +have the type \ctype{PyObject *}; they are all either class objects or +string objects, depending on the use of the \programopt{-X} option to the +interpreter. For completeness, here are all the variables: \cdata{PyExc_Exception}, \cdata{PyExc_StandardError}, \cdata{PyExc_ArithmeticError}, @@ -2126,19 +2126,20 @@ specified as a \ctype{char *}, rather than a \ctype{PyObject *}. \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyDict_Items}{PyDictObject *p} Returns a \ctype{PyListObject} containing all the items from the dictionary, as in the dictinoary method \method{items()} (see -the \emph{Python Library Reference}). +the \citetitle[../lib/lib.html]{Python Library Reference}). \end{cfuncdesc} \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyDict_Keys}{PyDictObject *p} Returns a \ctype{PyListObject} containing all the keys from the dictionary, as in the dictionary method \method{keys()} (see the -\emph{Python Library Reference}). +\citetitle[../lib/lib.html]{Python Library Reference}). \end{cfuncdesc} \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyDict_Values}{PyDictObject *p} Returns a \ctype{PyListObject} containing all the values from the dictionary \var{p}, as in the dictionary method -\method{values()} (see the \emph{Python Library Reference}). +\method{values()} (see the \citetitle[../lib/lib.html]{Python Library +Reference}). \end{cfuncdesc} \begin{cfuncdesc}{int}{PyDict_Size}{PyDictObject *p} |