From 794643c3140d75bb5cd9c69214294d2291624c1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:59:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Py_InitModule() and friends now accept NULL for the 'methods'
 argument.  This makes sense now that extension types can support __init__
 directly rather than requiring function constructors.

---
 Doc/api/newtypes.tex | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/api/newtypes.tex b/Doc/api/newtypes.tex
index ff7c4ef7945..4aae6170aaa 100644
--- a/Doc/api/newtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/newtypes.tex
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ defining new object types.
                                             PyMethodDef *methods}
   Create a new module object based on a name and table of functions,
   returning the new module object.
+
+  \versionchanged[Older versions of Python did not support \NULL{} as
+                  the value for the \var{methods} argument]{2.3}
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{Py_InitModule3}{char *name,
@@ -91,6 +94,9 @@ defining new object types.
   Create a new module object based on a name and table of functions,
   returning the new module object.  If \var{doc} is non-\NULL, it will
   be used to define the docstring for the module.
+
+  \versionchanged[Older versions of Python did not support \NULL{} as
+                  the value for the \var{methods} argument]{2.3}
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{Py_InitModule4}{char *name,
@@ -109,6 +115,9 @@ defining new object types.
   \note{Most uses of this function should probably be using
   the \cfunction{Py_InitModule3()} instead; only use this if you are
   sure you need it.}
+
+  \versionchanged[Older versions of Python did not support \NULL{} as
+                  the value for the \var{methods} argument]{2.3}
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
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