[Python-Dev] rest markup in ctypes docs

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Wed Jun 11 20:40:23 CEST 2008


Thomas Heller schrieb:
> There are a few cases where the ctypes docs are rendered incorrectly:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ctypes.html#function-prototypes
> 
> This looks as if 'prototype' would be a symbol exposed by ctypes; it is
> not - it is used as a placeholder for the object returned by calls to 
> the ctypes.CFUNCTYPE, ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE, and ctypes.PYFUNCTYPE functions above.
> 
> The rest markup is like this:
> 
> 
> .. function:: prototype(address)
>    :noindex:
> 
>    Returns a foreign function at the specified address.
> 
> Some lines below, it looks like ctypes would export '1', '2', and '4'.
> Here is the markup:
> 
Sorry, I meant this:

.. data:: 1
   :noindex:

   Specifies an input parameter to the function.


> 
> How can this be fixed?
> 


-- 
Thanks,
Thomas



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