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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/init.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst index 1a54321..6439d7f 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst @@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ Process-wide parameters single: main() triple: stdin; stdout; sdterr - This function should be called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize`. It - specifies which encoding and error handling to use with standard io, - with the same meanings as in :func:`str.encode`. + This function should be called before :c:func:`Py_Initialize`, if it is + called at all. It specifies which encoding and error handling to use + with standard IO, with the same meanings as in :func:`str.encode`. It overrides :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` values, and allows embedding code - to control io encoding when the environment variable does not work. + to control IO encoding when the environment variable does not work. ``encoding`` and/or ``errors`` may be NULL to use :envvar:`PYTHONIOENCODING` and/or default values (depending on other @@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ Process-wide parameters If :c:func:`Py_Finalize` is called, this function will need to be called again in order to affect subsequent calls to :c:func:`Py_Initialize`. - Returns 0 if successful. + Returns 0 if successful, a nonzero value on error (e.g. calling after the + interpreter has already been initialized). + + .. versionadded:: 3.4 .. c:function:: void Py_SetProgramName(wchar_t *name) |