[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.1 -> 3.2): #11840: Merge with 3.1.

[ezio.melotti]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/62679f2ca9e5
changeset:   69343:62679f2ca9e5
branch:      3.2
parent:      69339:71220d86cde9
parent:      69342:11c72a305eb5
user:        Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com>
date:        Thu Apr 14 07:50:25 2011 +0300
summary:
  #11840: Merge with 3.1.

files:
  Doc/c-api/unicode.rst |  64 +++++++++++++++---------------
  1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size)
 
    Create a Unicode object by replacing all decimal digits in
-   :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size by ASCII digits 0--9
+   :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* by ASCII digits 0--9
    according to their decimal value.  Return *NULL* if an exception
    occurs.
 
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: Py_UNICODE* PyUnicode_AsUnicodeCopy(PyObject *unicode)
 
-   Create a copy of a unicode string ending with a nul character. Return *NULL*
+   Create a copy of a Unicode string ending with a nul character. Return *NULL*
    and raise a :exc:`MemoryError` exception on memory allocation failure,
    otherwise return a new allocated buffer (use :c:func:`PyMem_Free` to free the
    buffer).
@@ -363,8 +363,8 @@
    incremented refcount.
 
    :class:`bytes`, :class:`bytearray` and other char buffer compatible objects
-   are decoded according to the given encoding and using the error handling
-   defined by errors. Both can be *NULL* to have the interface use the default
+   are decoded according to the given *encoding* and using the error handling
+   defined by *errors*. Both can be *NULL* to have the interface use the default
    values (see the next section for details).
 
    All other objects, including Unicode objects, cause a :exc:`TypeError` to be
@@ -458,12 +458,12 @@
 wchar_t Support
 """""""""""""""
 
-wchar_t support for platforms which support it:
+:c:type:`wchar_t` support for platforms which support it:
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_FromWideChar(const wchar_t *w, Py_ssize_t size)
 
-   Create a Unicode object from the :c:type:`wchar_t` buffer *w* of the given size.
-   Passing -1 as the size indicates that the function must itself compute the length,
+   Create a Unicode object from the :c:type:`wchar_t` buffer *w* of the given *size*.
+   Passing -1 as the *size* indicates that the function must itself compute the length,
    using wcslen.
    Return *NULL* on failure.
 
@@ -501,15 +501,15 @@
 Python provides a set of built-in codecs which are written in C for speed. All of
 these codecs are directly usable via the following functions.
 
-Many of the following APIs take two arguments encoding and errors. These
-parameters encoding and errors have the same semantics as the ones of the
-built-in :func:`str` string object constructor.
+Many of the following APIs take two arguments encoding and errors, and they
+have the same semantics as the ones of the built-in :func:`str` string object
+constructor.
 
 Setting encoding to *NULL* causes the default encoding to be used
 which is ASCII.  The file system calls should use
 :c:func:`PyUnicode_FSConverter` for encoding file names. This uses the
 variable :c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding` internally. This
-variable should be treated as read-only: On some systems, it will be a
+variable should be treated as read-only: on some systems, it will be a
 pointer to a static string, on others, it will change at run-time
 (such as when the application invokes setlocale).
 
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_Encode(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *encoding, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size and return a Python
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer *s* of the given *size* and return a Python
    bytes object.  *encoding* and *errors* have the same meaning as the
    parameters of the same name in the Unicode :meth:`encode` method.  The codec
    to be used is looked up using the Python codec registry.  Return *NULL* if an
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using UTF-8 and
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer *s* of the given *size* using UTF-8 and
    return a Python bytes object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by
    the codec.
 
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeUTF32(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors, int *byteorder)
 
-   Decode *length* bytes from a UTF-32 encoded buffer string and return the
+   Decode *size* bytes from a UTF-32 encoded buffer string and return the
    corresponding Unicode object.  *errors* (if non-*NULL*) defines the error
    handling. It defaults to "strict".
 
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors, int *byteorder)
 
-   Decode *length* bytes from a UTF-16 encoded buffer string and return the
+   Decode *size* bytes from a UTF-16 encoded buffer string and return the
    corresponding Unicode object.  *errors* (if non-*NULL*) defines the error
    handling. It defaults to "strict".
 
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeUnicodeEscape(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using Unicode-Escape and
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* using Unicode-Escape and
    return a Python string object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by the
    codec.
 
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeRawUnicodeEscape(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using Raw-Unicode-Escape
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* using Raw-Unicode-Escape
    and return a Python string object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by
    the codec.
 
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeLatin1(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using Latin-1 and
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* using Latin-1 and
    return a Python bytes object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by
    the codec.
 
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeASCII(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using ASCII and
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* using ASCII and
    return a Python bytes object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by
    the codec.
 
@@ -865,8 +865,6 @@
 Character Map Codecs
 """"""""""""""""""""
 
-These are the mapping codec APIs:
-
 This codec is special in that it can be used to implement many different codecs
 (and this is in fact what was done to obtain most of the standard codecs
 included in the :mod:`encodings` package). The codec uses mapping to encode and
@@ -888,6 +886,7 @@
 resp. Because of this, mappings only need to contain those mappings which map
 characters to different code points.
 
+These are the mapping codec APIs:
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size, PyObject *mapping, const char *errors)
 
@@ -901,7 +900,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeCharmap(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, PyObject *mapping, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using the given
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* using the given
    *mapping* object and return a Python string object. Return *NULL* if an
    exception was raised by the codec.
 
@@ -917,7 +916,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, PyObject *table, const char *errors)
 
-   Translate a :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given length by applying a
+   Translate a :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* by applying a
    character mapping *table* to it and return the resulting Unicode object.  Return
    *NULL* when an exception was raised by the codec.
 
@@ -929,16 +928,15 @@
    :exc:`LookupError`) are left untouched and are copied as-is.
 
 
+
+MBCS codecs for Windows
+"""""""""""""""""""""""
+
 These are the MBCS codec APIs. They are currently only available on Windows and
 use the Win32 MBCS converters to implement the conversions.  Note that MBCS (or
 DBCS) is a class of encodings, not just one.  The target encoding is defined by
 the user settings on the machine running the codec.
 
-
-MBCS codecs for Windows
-"""""""""""""""""""""""
-
-
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_DecodeMBCS(const char *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
 
    Create a Unicode object by decoding *size* bytes of the MBCS encoded string *s*.
@@ -955,7 +953,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors)
 
-   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given size using MBCS and return
+   Encode the :c:type:`Py_UNICODE` buffer of the given *size* using MBCS and return
    a Python bytes object.  Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by the
    codec.
 
@@ -990,7 +988,7 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_Split(PyObject *s, PyObject *sep, Py_ssize_t maxsplit)
 
-   Split a string giving a list of Unicode strings.  If sep is *NULL*, splitting
+   Split a string giving a list of Unicode strings.  If *sep* is *NULL*, splitting
    will be done at all whitespace substrings.  Otherwise, splits occur at the given
    separator.  At most *maxsplit* splits will be done.  If negative, no limit is
    set.  Separators are not included in the resulting list.
@@ -1021,20 +1019,20 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_Join(PyObject *separator, PyObject *seq)
 
-   Join a sequence of strings using the given separator and return the resulting
+   Join a sequence of strings using the given *separator* and return the resulting
    Unicode string.
 
 
 .. c:function:: int PyUnicode_Tailmatch(PyObject *str, PyObject *substr, Py_ssize_t start, Py_ssize_t end, int direction)
 
-   Return 1 if *substr* matches *str*[*start*:*end*] at the given tail end
+   Return 1 if *substr* matches ``str[start:end]`` at the given tail end
    (*direction* == -1 means to do a prefix match, *direction* == 1 a suffix match),
    0 otherwise. Return ``-1`` if an error occurred.
 
 
 .. c:function:: Py_ssize_t PyUnicode_Find(PyObject *str, PyObject *substr, Py_ssize_t start, Py_ssize_t end, int direction)
 
-   Return the first position of *substr* in *str*[*start*:*end*] using the given
+   Return the first position of *substr* in ``str[start:end]`` using the given
    *direction* (*direction* == 1 means to do a forward search, *direction* == -1 a
    backward search).  The return value is the index of the first match; a value of
    ``-1`` indicates that no match was found, and ``-2`` indicates that an error

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