[Python-Dev] PyExc_UnicodeDecodeError

[Thomas Heller]

Can anyone explain why calling this code in a C extension

static PyObject *
test(PyObject *self, PyObject *arg)
{
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_UnicodeDecodeError, "blah blah");
        return NULL;
}

PyMethodDef module_methods[] = {
        {"test", test, METH_NOARGS},
        {NULL, NULL}
};


does this (same in 2.3.4, and 2.4 current CVS):

>>> from somewhere import test
>>> test()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: function takes exactly 5 arguments (1 given)
>>>

Thomas