Issue #9738: Document encodings of error and warning functions

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Include/pyerrors.h b/Include/pyerrors.h
index d72ce07261..05c5ea8034 100644
--- a/Include/pyerrors.h
+++ b/Include/pyerrors.h
@@ -201,7 +201,9 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_Format(
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject(
     int, const char *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename(
-    int, const char *);
+    int ierr,
+    const char *filename        /* decoded from UTF-8 */
+    );
 #ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
 /* XXX redeclare to use WSTRING */
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithUnicodeFilename(
@@ -211,7 +213,10 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(int);
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject(
     PyObject *,int, PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename(
-    PyObject *,int, const char *);
+    PyObject *exc,
+    int ierr,
+    const char *filename        /* decoded from UTF-8 */
+    );
 #ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithUnicodeFilename(
     PyObject *,int, const Py_UNICODE *);
@@ -243,27 +248,51 @@ int PySignal_SetWakeupFd(int fd);
 #endif
 
 /* Support for adding program text to SyntaxErrors */
-PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyErr_SyntaxLocation(const char *, int);
-PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx(const char *, int, int);
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_ProgramText(const char *, int);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyErr_SyntaxLocation(
+    const char *filename,       /* decoded from the filesystem encoding */
+    int lineno);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx(
+    const char *filename,       /* decoded from the filesystem encoding */
+    int lineno,
+    int col_offset);
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyErr_ProgramText(
+    const char *filename,       /* decoded from the filesystem encoding */
+    int lineno);
 
 /* The following functions are used to create and modify unicode
    exceptions from C */
 
 /* create a UnicodeDecodeError object */
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyUnicodeDecodeError_Create(
-    const char *, const char *, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, const char *);
+    const char *encoding,       /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    const char *object,
+    Py_ssize_t length,
+    Py_ssize_t start,
+    Py_ssize_t end,
+    const char *reason          /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    );
 
 /* create a UnicodeEncodeError object */
 #ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyUnicodeEncodeError_Create(
-    const char *, const Py_UNICODE *, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, const char *);
+    const char *encoding,       /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    const Py_UNICODE *object,
+    Py_ssize_t length,
+    Py_ssize_t start,
+    Py_ssize_t end,
+    const char *reason          /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    );
 #endif
 
 /* create a UnicodeTranslateError object */
 #ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyUnicodeTranslateError_Create(
-    const Py_UNICODE *, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, Py_ssize_t, const char *);
+    const Py_UNICODE *object,
+    Py_ssize_t length,
+    Py_ssize_t start,
+    Py_ssize_t end,
+    const char *reason          /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    );
 #endif
 
 /* get the encoding attribute */
@@ -307,11 +336,17 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyUnicodeTranslateError_GetReason(PyObject *);
 /* assign a new value to the reason attribute
    return 0 on success, -1 on failure */
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyUnicodeEncodeError_SetReason(
-    PyObject *, const char *);
+    PyObject *exc,
+    const char *reason          /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    );
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyUnicodeDecodeError_SetReason(
-    PyObject *, const char *);
+    PyObject *exc,
+    const char *reason          /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    );
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyUnicodeTranslateError_SetReason(
-    PyObject *, const char *);
+    PyObject *exc,
+    const char *reason          /* UTF-8 encoded string */
+    );
 
 
 /* These APIs aren't really part of the error implementation, but