[pypy-commit] cffi default: Mention ffi.buffer() in the ffi.string() doc.

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Sat Dec 1 00:59:16 CET 2012


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r1094:9929fb64a1bc
Date: 2012-11-30 15:59 -0800
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/9929fb64a1bc/

Log:	Mention ffi.buffer() in the ffi.string() doc.

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -1010,8 +1010,9 @@
 - If 'cdata' is a pointer or array of characters or bytes, returns the
   null-terminated string.  The returned string extends until the first
   null character, or at most 'maxlen' characters.  If 'cdata' is an
-  array then 'maxlen' defaults to its length.  *Python 3:* this is
-  always a ``bytes``, not a ``str``.
+  array then 'maxlen' defaults to its length.  See ``ffi.buffer()`` below
+  for a way to continue past the first null character.  *Python 3:* this
+  returns a ``bytes``, not a ``str``.
 
 - If 'cdata' is a pointer or array of wchar_t, returns a unicode string
   following the same rules.


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