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diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst index 7e680db..497180a 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst @@ -82,10 +82,8 @@ example, the single expression ``"ls -l"``) to the arguments passed to the C function. The C function always has two arguments, conventionally named *self* and *args*. -The *self* argument is only used when the C function implements a built-in -method, not a function. In the example, *self* will always be a *NULL* pointer, -since we are defining a function, not a method. (This is done so that the -interpreter doesn't have to understand two different types of C functions.) +The *self* argument points to the module object for module-level functions; +for a method it would point to the object instance. The *args* argument will be a pointer to a Python tuple object containing the arguments. Each item of the tuple corresponds to an argument in the call's |