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diff --git a/Doc/ext/extending.tex b/Doc/ext/extending.tex index 8c9769a..693af1d 100644 --- a/Doc/ext/extending.tex +++ b/Doc/ext/extending.tex @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Let's create an extension module called \samp{spam} (the favorite food of Monty Python fans...) and let's say we want to create a Python interface to the C library function \cfunction{system()}.\footnote{An interface for this function already exists in the standard module -\module{os} --- it was chosen as a simple and straightfoward example.} +\module{os} --- it was chosen as a simple and straightforward example.} This function takes a null-terminated character string as argument and returns an integer. We want this function to be callable from Python as follows: @@ -1002,8 +1002,8 @@ on, it must be turned into an owned reference by calling \cfunction{Py_INCREF()}. The object reference returned from a C function that is called from -Python must be an owned reference --- ownership is tranferred from the -function to its caller. +Python must be an owned reference --- ownership is transferred from +the function to its caller. \subsection{Thin Ice @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ apply. If the main program (the Python interpreter) is compiled and linked by the C compiler, global or static objects with constructors cannot be used. This is not a problem if the main program is linked by the \Cpp{} compiler. Functions that will be called by the -Python interpreter (in particular, module initalization functions) +Python interpreter (in particular, module initialization functions) have to be declared using \code{extern "C"}. It is unnecessary to enclose the Python header files in \code{extern "C" \{...\}} --- they use this form already if the symbol |