From ffc9479a41cdacb65937efbc1b60f39f6306c362 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:10:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] document 'y(#)' format codes for Py_BuildValue

---
 Doc/c-api/arg.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
index c3d051a858f..94f62f13282 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
@@ -424,6 +424,14 @@ and the following format units are left untouched.
       Convert a C string and its length to a Python object.  If the C string pointer
       is *NULL*, the length is ignored and ``None`` is returned.
 
+   ``y`` (bytes) [char \*, int]
+      This converts a C string to a Python :func:`bytes` object.  If the C
+      string pointer is *NULL*, ``None`` is returned.
+
+   ``y#`` (bytes) [char \*, int]
+      This converts a C string and its lengths to a Python object.  If the C
+      string pointer is *NULL*, ``None`` is returned.
+
    ``z`` (string or ``None``) [char \*]
       Same as ``s``.