[Python-checkins] bpo-37194: Complete PyObject_CallXXX() docs (GH-14156) (GH-14157)
Victor Stinner
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Mon Jun 17 09:24:03 EDT 2019
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/71031cf4ed5ac9e330c8890b92379d9df383925b
commit: 71031cf4ed5ac9e330c8890b92379d9df383925b
branch: 3.8
author: Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-06-17T15:23:59+02:00
summary:
bpo-37194: Complete PyObject_CallXXX() docs (GH-14156) (GH-14157)
Mention explicitly that PyObject_CallXXX() functions raise an
exception an failure.
(cherry picked from commit 1ce2656f13e726b3b99d4c968926908cff1f460a)
files:
M Doc/c-api/object.rst
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/object.rst b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
index ce0d05942f4e..187a025a67cb 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/object.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@ Object Protocol
*args* must not be *NULL*, use an empty tuple if no arguments are needed.
If no named arguments are needed, *kwargs* can be *NULL*.
- Returns the result of the call on success, or *NULL* on failure.
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
+ *NULL* on failure.
This is the equivalent of the Python expression:
``callable(*args, **kwargs)``.
@@ -272,7 +273,8 @@ Object Protocol
Call a callable Python object *callable*, with arguments given by the
tuple *args*. If no arguments are needed, then *args* can be *NULL*.
- Returns the result of the call on success, or *NULL* on failure.
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
+ *NULL* on failure.
This is the equivalent of the Python expression: ``callable(*args)``.
@@ -283,7 +285,8 @@ Object Protocol
The C arguments are described using a :c:func:`Py_BuildValue` style format
string. The format can be *NULL*, indicating that no arguments are provided.
- Returns the result of the call on success, or *NULL* on failure.
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
+ *NULL* on failure.
This is the equivalent of the Python expression: ``callable(*args)``.
@@ -302,7 +305,8 @@ Object Protocol
The format can be *NULL*, indicating that no arguments are provided.
- Returns the result of the call on success, or *NULL* on failure.
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
+ *NULL* on failure.
This is the equivalent of the Python expression:
``obj.name(arg1, arg2, ...)``.
@@ -320,7 +324,8 @@ Object Protocol
:c:type:`PyObject\*` arguments. The arguments are provided as a variable number
of parameters followed by *NULL*.
- Returns the result of the call on success, or *NULL* on failure.
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
+ *NULL* on failure.
This is the equivalent of the Python expression:
``callable(arg1, arg2, ...)``.
@@ -331,7 +336,9 @@ Object Protocol
Calls a method of the Python object *obj*, where the name of the method is given as a
Python string object in *name*. It is called with a variable number of
:c:type:`PyObject\*` arguments. The arguments are provided as a variable number
- of parameters followed by *NULL*. Returns the result of the call on success, or
+ of parameters followed by *NULL*.
+
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
*NULL* on failure.
@@ -355,7 +362,8 @@ Object Protocol
*kwnames* must contain only objects of type ``str`` (not a subclass),
and all keys must be unique.
- Return the result of the call on success, or *NULL* on failure.
+ Return the result of the call on success, or raise an exception and return
+ *NULL* on failure.
This uses the vectorcall protocol if the callable supports it;
otherwise, the arguments are converted to use
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