Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> Oh. Not only is the comment is wrong, but the code is also wrong. It
> should return a negative value on error, whereas it returns the string
> length which is always positive (except on a unlikely Py_ssize_t => int
> overflow?).

Right. See msg125367.

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