[ python-Bugs-1306449 ] PyString_AsStringAndSize() return value documented wrong

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Bugs item #1306449, was opened at 2005-09-28 03:37
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gregory Bond (gnbond)
>Assigned to: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Summary: PyString_AsStringAndSize() return value documented wrong

Initial Comment:
The C/C++ API document (latest version from docs.python.org) has:

	int PyString_AsStringAndSize(	PyObject *obj, char **buffer, int 
*length)
	[snip]

 	If string is not a string object at all, PyString_AsString() returns NULL 
and raises TypeError.

But the code returns -1 (Objects/stringobject.c line 728ff in my 2.3.4 
source):

                {
                        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
                                     "expected string or Unicode object, "
                                     "%.200s found", obj->ob_type->tp_name);
                        return -1;
                }


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Comment By: Georg Brandl (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-09-28 12:53

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Thanks for the report, fixed in Doc/api/concrete.tex r1.67,
1.58.2.4.

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Comment By: Gregory Bond (gnbond)
Date: 2005-09-28 06:05

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Fix the summary!

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