From 04778a8150430edc2c441f2f86193ca690d60aa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:29:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] make PyImport_ImportModuleLevel's first arg const like
 similiar functions (closes #12173)

---
 Include/import.h | 2 +-
 Misc/NEWS        | 3 +++
 Python/import.c  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Include/import.h b/Include/import.h
index 6331edf7efe..4554411156f 100644
--- a/Include/import.h
+++ b/Include/import.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(
     const char *name            /* UTF-8 encoded string */
     );
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyImport_ImportModuleLevel(
-    char *name,                 /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    const char *name,           /* UTF-8 encoded string */
     PyObject *globals,
     PyObject *locals,
     PyObject *fromlist,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6762731af66..36a3c9da183 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -826,6 +826,9 @@ C-API
 - PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
   Mercurial.
 
+- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
+  char *` instead of `char *1`.
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 
diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 5360d57c511..bfb976c77cb 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -2818,7 +2818,7 @@ PyImport_ImportModuleLevelObject(PyObject *name, PyObject *globals,
 }
 
 PyObject *
-PyImport_ImportModuleLevel(char *name, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals,
+PyImport_ImportModuleLevel(const char *name, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals,
                            PyObject *fromlist, int level)
 {
     PyObject *nameobj, *mod;