https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e4654e0b3e7d802c8fe984cf39a36a42b67de1ad
commit: e4654e0b3e7d802c8fe984cf39a36a42b67de1ad
branch: main
author: Sergey B Kirpichev <[email protected]>
committer: kumaraditya303 <[email protected]>
date: 2025-07-15T11:00:12+05:30
summary:
gh-136663: fix signatures of PyFloat_Pack/Unpack in docs (#136664)
files:
M Doc/c-api/float.rst
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/float.rst b/Doc/c-api/float.rst
index c5a7653efca26b..489676caa3a16a 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/float.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/float.rst
@@ -124,15 +124,15 @@ There are two problems on non-IEEE platforms:
* What this does is undefined if *x* is a NaN or infinity.
* ``-0.0`` and ``+0.0`` produce the same bytes string.
-.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack2(double x, unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack2(double x, char *p, int le)
Pack a C double as the IEEE 754 binary16 half-precision format.
-.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack4(double x, unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack4(double x, char *p, int le)
Pack a C double as the IEEE 754 binary32 single precision format.
-.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack8(double x, unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: int PyFloat_Pack8(double x, char *p, int le)
Pack a C double as the IEEE 754 binary64 double precision format.
@@ -154,14 +154,14 @@ Return value: The unpacked double. On error, this is
``-1.0`` and
Note that on a non-IEEE platform this will refuse to unpack a bytes string that
represents a NaN or infinity.
-.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack2(const unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack2(const char *p, int le)
Unpack the IEEE 754 binary16 half-precision format as a C double.
-.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack4(const unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack4(const char *p, int le)
Unpack the IEEE 754 binary32 single precision format as a C double.
-.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack8(const unsigned char *p, int le)
+.. c:function:: double PyFloat_Unpack8(const char *p, int le)
Unpack the IEEE 754 binary64 double precision format as a C double.
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