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authorInada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>2019-04-13 10:46:21 +0900
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-04-13 10:46:21 +0900
commitc88feceb449d6e85d7e17ec36559206094d10d81 (patch)
treecda7737ab74c0419b952e440b86e10a6101e3d7f /Doc/extending
parenta304b136adda3575898d8b5debedcd48d5072272 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-c88feceb449d6e85d7e17ec36559206094d10d81.tar.gz
Doc: define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN always (GH-12794)
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/extending')
-rw-r--r--Doc/extending/embedding.rst1
-rw-r--r--Doc/extending/extending.rst11
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/extending/embedding.rst b/Doc/extending/embedding.rst
index 7e4fc19db8..13d83b72f8 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/embedding.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/embedding.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ interface. This interface is intended to execute a Python script without needing
to interact with the application directly. This can for example be used to
perform some operation on a file. ::
+ #define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
#include <Python.h>
int
diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
index 9fbd91f6a0..433178ab64 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
@@ -55,8 +55,9 @@ called ``spam``, the C file containing its implementation is called
:file:`spammodule.c`; if the module name is very long, like ``spammify``, the
module name can be just :file:`spammify.c`.)
-The first line of our file can be::
+The first two lines of our file can be::
+ #define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
#include <Python.h>
which pulls in the Python API (you can add a comment describing the purpose of
@@ -68,6 +69,9 @@ the module and a copyright notice if you like).
headers on some systems, you *must* include :file:`Python.h` before any standard
headers are included.
+ It is recommended to always define ``PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN`` before including
+ ``Python.h``. See :ref:`parsetuple` for a description of this macro.
+
All user-visible symbols defined by :file:`Python.h` have a prefix of ``Py`` or
``PY``, except those defined in standard header files. For convenience, and
since they are used extensively by the Python interpreter, ``"Python.h"``
@@ -729,7 +733,8 @@ it returns false and raises an appropriate exception.
Here is an example module which uses keywords, based on an example by Geoff
Philbrick (philbrick@hks.com)::
- #include "Python.h"
+ #define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN /* Make "s#" use Py_ssize_t rather than int. */
+ #include <Python.h>
static PyObject *
keywdarg_parrot(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *keywds)
@@ -1228,7 +1233,7 @@ The function :c:func:`spam_system` is modified in a trivial way::
In the beginning of the module, right after the line ::
- #include "Python.h"
+ #include <Python.h>
two more lines must be added::