From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:12:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: w# requires Py_ssize_t, not int.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.1~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c3f8701c48748ca52832aa7990c37831ad42492;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

w# requires Py_ssize_t, not int.
This documentation bug has cost me several hours of debugging :/
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
index 25254382091b..120c2810848f 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ variable(s) whose address should be passed.
    or use ``w#`` instead.  Only single-segment buffer objects are accepted;
    :exc:`TypeError` is raised for all others.
 
-``w#`` (read-write character buffer) [char \*, int]
+``w#`` (read-write character buffer) [char \*, Py_ssize_t]
    Like ``s#``, but accepts any object which implements the read-write buffer
    interface.  The :ctype:`char \*` variable is set to point to the first byte of
    the buffer, and the :ctype:`int` is set to the length of the buffer.  Only