[New-bugs-announce] [issue9728] Docs point to FAQ Section 3, but FAQs are not numbered

[Daniel Stutzbach]

New submission from Daniel Stutzbach <daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com>:

In Doc/extending/windows.rst, there's the following text:

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If your module creates a new type, you may have trouble with this line::

   PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type, 0)

Change it to::

   PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)

and add the following to the module initialization function::

   MyObject_Type.ob_type = &PyType_Type;

Refer to section 3 of the `Python FAQ <http://www.python.org/doc/faq>`_ for
details on why you must do this.
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If I assume that Section 3 means, the third link on the FAQ page, I can't find the FAQ that's being alluded to here.  There's a comment in Include/pyport.h that I believe to be related:

            /* Under Cygwin, auto-import functions to prevent compilation */
            /* failures similar to http://python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.24 */

However, that link no longer goes to a particular question and I can't tell which question it once referred to.

I ran into this because I'm trying to understand the cause of the issue which I suspect is related to Issue #6672.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 115285
nosy: brian.curtin, docs at python, stutzbach, tim.golden
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Docs point to FAQ Section 3, but FAQs are not numbered

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