New submission from Martin Blais: Functions that parse arguments like PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() have several formatters that fill in C strings, e.g. "s".
In the C API doc: https://docs.python.org/3.5/c-api/arg.html#c.PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords There should be an explicit mention of whether this memory needs to be free (in this case: No) and if not, how this memory is managed (in this case: This refers to a buffer managed by the string object itself). Because of questions of encoding, it raises questions where this memory lies, and what its lifetime is (in this case: That of the owning string object from the caller). This deserves an explicit mention, even if brief. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 243987 nosy: blais, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Docs on Parsing arguments should say something about mem mgmt for formatters returning C strings _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24278> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
