[New-bugs-announce] [issue7018] Recommend "*" over "#" in getargs.c typecodes

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

In « Parsing arguments and building values » (c-api/arg.html), it should
be made clear that "*" typecodes are recommended over the "#" typecodes,
which are inherently unsafe.

(more generally, the page is totally unreadable, a solution might be to
group the typecodes by family: numbers, strings/buffers, objects; also,
there are so many choices that it's confusing which ones should be
preferred)

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation, Interpreter Core
messages: 93276
nosy: georg.brandl, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Recommend "*" over "#" in getargs.c typecodes
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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