[ python-Bugs-1729742 ] missing int->Py_ssize_t in documentation

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Bugs item #1729742, was opened at 2007-06-02 01:51
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Brian Wellington (bwelling)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: missing int->Py_ssize_t in documentation

Initial Comment:
The "Parsing arguments and building values" section of the Python/C API Reference Manual describes the "s#" format unit as requiring a [const char *, int].  This should presumably be a Py_ssize_t, as that's what the code appears to expect.

The same problem also occurs elsewhere in this page; pretty much everywhere the # format modifier is described.

I'm seeing this in both the 2.5.1 and development versions of the docs on docs.python.org.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-06-02 09:27

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It's more complicated than that, see PEP 353: It's Py_ssize_t if the
module defines PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN, else it's int. Would you like to work on a
patch fixing the documentation?

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