PEP 683 (immortal objects) revealed some ways in which the Python documentation has been unnecessarily coupled to the implementation details of reference counts. In the end users should focus on reference ownership, including taking references and releasing them, rather than on how many reference counts an object has.
This change updates the documentation to reflect that perspective.
GH-97950: Use new-style index directive ('object') (GH-104158)
* Uncomment object removal in pairindextypes
* Use new-style index directive ('object') - C API
* Use new-style index directive ('object') - Library
* Use new-style index directive ('object') - Reference
* Use new-style index directive ('object') - Tutorial
(cherry picked from commit 6ab463684b)
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
It fixes 252 errors from a Sphinx nitpicky run (sphinx-build -n). But
there's 8182 errors left.
Co-authored-by: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 664aa94b57)
Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
Convert the following macros to static inline functions:
* PyByteArray_AS_STRING()
* PyByteArray_GET_SIZE()
* PyBytes_AS_STRING()
* PyBytes_GET_SIZE()
Limited C API version 3.11 no longer casts arguments.
Add _PyBytes_CAST() and _PyByteArray_CAST() macros.
I think that none of these API calls can fail, but only few of them are
documented as such. Add the sentence "This function always succeeds" (which is
the same already used e.g. by PyNumber_Check) to all of them.