From 33f9fa7f8c423e59db3137830f4b5aba5e7a3da2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:38:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document that PyString_FromString() cannot take NULL as a
 parameter. This closes SF bug #489872.

---
 Doc/api/api.tex | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex
index 6d8171d26732..e3ba0d2add03 100644
--- a/Doc/api/api.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/api.tex
@@ -2457,7 +2457,8 @@ Returns true if the object \var{o} is a string object.
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyString_FromString}{const char *v}
 Returns a new string object with the value \var{v} on success, and
-\NULL{} on failure.
+\NULL{} on failure.  The parameter \var{v} must not be \NULL; it
+will not be checked.
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyString_FromStringAndSize}{const char *v,
-- 
2.47.3