Fred Drake
5f29319197
Replace the "Cookbook approach" with the approach documented in
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PC/example_nt/readme.txt; this one does not rely on any external scripts.
This "fixes" SF bug #221671 and most of SF bug #225003 .
2001-12-13 17:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
145b479508
Added discussion of protecting against screwing up the exception state in
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an object's deallocator, including an example of how to do this.
2001-12-11 19:28:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
44b3f76adf
More info about the cycle detector.
2001-12-07 17:57:56 +00:00
Tim Peters
874c4f0f99
Trivial spelling repair on new cyclic garbage text.
2001-12-07 17:51:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
024e647972
Added more information about reference counting limitations and the cycle
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detector.
This closes SF bug #484950 .
2001-12-07 17:30:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
92024d1a99
Clarify the description of the creation of an owned reference from an API
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function.
This closes SF bug #486657 .
2001-11-29 07:16:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
99181ac64e
Add an index entry for the discussion of PyEval_CallObject().
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This is related to SF bug #485165 .
2001-11-29 05:02:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef6373a4f6
Exhibit good form in C code: always provide docstrings in method tables, and
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always fill in all slots of table entries.
Fixed a few minor markup errors.
2001-11-17 06:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7a59445e37
Document required return values -1, 0, 1 for tp_compare handler, as
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suggested in SF patch #424475 . Also document exception return.
2001-10-16 20:32:05 +00:00
Tim Peters
d38b1c74f3
SF [ #466125 ] PyLong_AsLongLong works for any integer.
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Generalize PyLong_AsLongLong to accept int arguments too. The real point
is so that PyArg_ParseTuple's 'L' code does too. That code was
undocumented (AFAICT), so documented it.
2001-09-30 05:09:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ab0ac7cd4
Remove comment that no longer applies.
2001-09-26 22:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
396ca574dd
Document the rule that Python.h must be included before any standard
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headers. This is the final checkin for SF bug #458768 .
2001-09-06 16:30:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
9b88b4c9e8
Do not #include <stdio.h> since Python.h already does that.
2001-09-06 16:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
adaca02f9e
Use the standard argument convention for main(), and conform to the
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Python/C style guide.
2001-09-06 16:17:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
da21ce3e31
On Fred's suggestion, convert sprintf() examples to use
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PyString_FromFormat(). Also fixed one grammar problem, and a few
other mark-up issues. Sample code not checked.
2001-08-29 01:41:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc8f44b884
Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter.
2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce1650f3a5
A large contribution from Dave Kuhlman describing what each of the slots
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in the type object is used for, for many of the more commonly used slots.
Thanks!
(But there is still a lot more to write on this topic.)
Markup and organizational changes by your friendly neighborhood
documentation czar.
2001-08-15 19:07:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
53765753c4
Lots of new text and example code on embedding Python in C, contributed
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by Albert Hofkamp. Some editing has been done for style and markup
consistency.
This also supplies an example of importing modules and calling a function
defined in the module, so this closes SF bug #440037 as well.
(The long example code was moved to a separate file so that it would
format properly.)
2001-08-04 01:58:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
3332778f35
Corrected a section reference (title was wrong).
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Added information on the return values of PyArg_ParseTuple() and
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().
2001-07-20 20:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a889ceb1e
Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
15e33d828c
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 06:49:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5df09cfb6
Update to include the license information in a less annoying place.
2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
6f15e5796e
Added new parser markers 'et' and 'et#' which do not recode string
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objects but instead assume that they use the requested encoding.
This is needed on Windows to enable opening files by passing in
Unicode file names.
2001-05-02 17:16:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
f531ad698c
Markup nit: For the Python documents, we use \empt instead of \textit.
2001-03-19 04:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
93fe96a3c8
Py_BuildValue(): Add "D" conversion to create a Python complex value from
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a Py_complex C value.
Patch by Walter Dörwald.
This closes SF patch #407148 .
2001-03-12 21:06:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
80d4c07775
There was a real leak in the "export a C API" example; fix that one.
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(There are too many initspam() functions; they need to be renamed
post-beta.)
2001-03-02 19:48:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
0539bfaaa4
There is no longer a -X option to the interpreter, so remove the comments
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on how PyErr_NewException() behaves in that case.
Clarify why an owned reference is kept in an extension module's
variable that refers to the result of PyErr_NewException(); one reader
thought that was a leak.
Clean up some tabs and simplify some markup.
2001-03-02 18:15:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6a9617ba0
Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
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New material on defining extension types. Thanks!
(Small markup adjustments made, but this is mostly as received.)
2001-02-19 19:22:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
bcb09fa33f
Worked around bug SF #125880 : changed the text of three sections that
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really nasty TeX source to "bleed" into the PDF "bookmarks".
2001-01-22 18:38:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
aa126e1e21
Corrected a number of typos reported by Gilles Civario
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<gcivario@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122562 .
2000-11-17 18:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
4bc0aed3a6
Fix cut & paste error that describes three paramters when there are only
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two [bug #119729 ].
Update use of distutils.sysconfig that "broke" when Greg W. changed the API
[bug #119645 ].
2000-11-02 21:49:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
585698aa59
All acknowledgements have been moved to the Doc/ACKS file.
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Adjusted to reflect the rename of Setup.in to Setup.dist.
Added pointer to the "Distributing Python Modules" manual in the
appropriate place.
2000-10-26 17:19:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
4dc1a6d6ba
Added some comments on the interaction of reload() and extension modules.
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Based on comments from Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-02 22:38:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed773ef78d
Include the new text on reporting bugs in a few useful places.
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This closes SourceForge bug #114792 .
2000-09-21 21:35:22 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
3578b77312
Special case the "s#" PyArg_Parse() token for Unicode objects:
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"s#" will now return a pointer to the default encoded string data
of the Unicode object instead of a pointer to the raw UTF-16
data.
The latter is still available via PyObject_AsReadBuffer().
2000-09-21 21:08:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c25803647
Add a brief section on linking Python as an embedded scripting language.
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This closes SourceForge bug #110833 .
2000-09-08 22:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e15945fff
Markup errors: \cfuntion -> \cfunction
2000-08-11 17:09:23 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
8b9835cdb2
Added descriptions of the new parser markers for PyArg_ParseTuple().
2000-08-03 19:38:07 +00:00
Greg Stein
c2844af87b
needs a space
2000-07-09 16:27:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
a83b68a143
Remove the only Py_PROTO in the docs.
2000-07-09 03:35:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
1739be50cb
Small grammatical correction from Frank Stajano. Added comment with
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suggestion from Frank for an example and further explanation.
2000-06-30 17:58:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec105d0993
Enhanced memory-reference information in the description of Py_BuildValue(),
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based on response from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
2000-06-28 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b9e180ec3
Added memory-reference information to the description of Py_BuildValue(),
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based on comments from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
2000-06-28 15:32:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
65e69002a2
Oops, better also note that the module initialization function must be
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extern "C" for C++.
2000-05-10 20:36:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d54523551
Section "The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function":
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Explain that the name of the initialization function must be
init<module>(). Omission noted by Daniel Kozan
<crum@dev-group.com>.
2000-05-10 20:33:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
25871c001f
Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>:
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Added 'u' and 'u#' tags for PyArg_ParseTuple - these turn a
PyUnicodeObject argument into a Py_UNICODE * buffer, or a Py_UNICODE *
buffer plus a length with the '#'. Also added an analog to 'U'
for Py_BuildValue.
2000-05-03 15:17:02 +00:00