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  r87784 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-06 08:16:31 +0100 (jeu., 06 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Issue #10840: make it explicit that "s*" and friends provide contiguous memory.
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@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ variable(s) whose address should be passed.
Strings and buffers
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These formats do not expect you to provide raw storage for the returned string
or bytes. Also, you won't have to release any memory yourself, except with
the ``es``, ``es#``, ``et`` and ``et#`` formats.
These formats allow to access an object as a contiguous chunk of memory.
You don't have to provide raw storage for the returned unicode or bytes
area. Also, you won't have to release any memory yourself, except with the
``es``, ``es#``, ``et`` and ``et#`` formats.
However, when a :ctype:`Py_buffer` structure gets filled, the underlying
buffer is locked so that the caller can subsequently use the buffer even