From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: gh-91755: Document Py_IncRef and Py_DecRef as C functions (GH-91805) X-Git-Tag: v3.10.5~46 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1815d8e64fd0bf9fc5fadc2af928a60e380a5c06;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-91755: Document Py_IncRef and Py_DecRef as C functions (GH-91805) Co-authored-by: Erlend Egeberg Aasland Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra (cherry picked from commit 58a3d28039863b014f57a1ac93b51e20920ebe7b) Co-authored-by: Charlie Zhao --- diff --git a/Doc/c-api/refcounting.rst b/Doc/c-api/refcounting.rst index 391907c8c297..738bd77e9ce4 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/refcounting.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/refcounting.rst @@ -109,11 +109,17 @@ objects. It is a good idea to use this macro whenever decrementing the reference count of an object that might be traversed during garbage collection. +.. c:function:: void Py_IncRef(PyObject *o) + + Increment the reference count for object *o*. A function version of :c:func:`Py_XINCREF`. + It can be used for runtime dynamic embedding of Python. + + +.. c:function:: void Py_DecRef(PyObject *o) + + Decrement the reference count for object *o*. A function version of :c:func:`Py_XDECREF`. + It can be used for runtime dynamic embedding of Python. -The following functions are for runtime dynamic embedding of Python: -``Py_IncRef(PyObject *o)``, ``Py_DecRef(PyObject *o)``. They are -simply exported function versions of :c:func:`Py_XINCREF` and -:c:func:`Py_XDECREF`, respectively. The following functions or macros are only for use within the interpreter core: :c:func:`_Py_Dealloc`, :c:func:`_Py_ForgetReference`, :c:func:`_Py_NewReference`,