[Python-checkins] bpo-12743: Delete comment from marshal.rst (GH-8457)
Berker Peksag
webhook-mailer at python.org
Fri Jul 27 00:35:20 EDT 2018
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/defcffdf86780e3a184ebb25dc9a7b807753d57a
commit: defcffdf86780e3a184ebb25dc9a7b807753d57a
branch: master
author: Berker Peksag <berker.peksag at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-07-27T07:35:11+03:00
summary:
bpo-12743: Delete comment from marshal.rst (GH-8457)
Also, update the list of exceptions that may raised by PyMarshal_*
functions. We usually don't document exceptions raised by a
function, but in this case most of them were already documented
in C API and standard library documentation.
files:
M Doc/c-api/marshal.rst
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/marshal.rst b/Doc/c-api/marshal.rst
index c6d1d02a2fa5..17ec621610b5 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/marshal.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/marshal.rst
@@ -40,12 +40,6 @@ unmarshalling. Version 2 uses a binary format for floating point numbers.
The following functions allow marshalled values to be read back in.
-XXX What about error detection? It appears that reading past the end of the
-file will always result in a negative numeric value (where that's relevant),
-but it's not clear that negative values won't be handled properly when there's
-no error. What's the right way to tell? Should only non-negative values be
-written using these routines?
-
.. c:function:: long PyMarshal_ReadLongFromFile(FILE *file)
@@ -53,7 +47,8 @@ written using these routines?
for reading. Only a 32-bit value can be read in using this function,
regardless of the native size of :c:type:`long`.
- On error, raise an exception and return ``-1``.
+ On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError`) and returns
+ ``-1``.
.. c:function:: int PyMarshal_ReadShortFromFile(FILE *file)
@@ -62,7 +57,8 @@ written using these routines?
for reading. Only a 16-bit value can be read in using this function,
regardless of the native size of :c:type:`short`.
- On error, raise an exception and return ``-1``.
+ On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError`) and returns
+ ``-1``.
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile(FILE *file)
@@ -70,8 +66,8 @@ written using these routines?
Return a Python object from the data stream in a :c:type:`FILE\*` opened for
reading.
- On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError` or
- :exc:`TypeError`) and returns *NULL*.
+ On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError`, :exc:`ValueError`
+ or :exc:`TypeError`) and returns *NULL*.
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile(FILE *file)
@@ -84,8 +80,8 @@ written using these routines?
file. Only use these variant if you are certain that you won't be reading
anything else from the file.
- On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError` or
- :exc:`TypeError`) and returns *NULL*.
+ On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError`, :exc:`ValueError`
+ or :exc:`TypeError`) and returns *NULL*.
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromString(const char *data, Py_ssize_t len)
@@ -93,6 +89,6 @@ written using these routines?
Return a Python object from the data stream in a byte buffer
containing *len* bytes pointed to by *data*.
- On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError` or
- :exc:`TypeError`) and returns *NULL*.
+ On error, sets the appropriate exception (:exc:`EOFError`, :exc:`ValueError`
+ or :exc:`TypeError`) and returns *NULL*.
More information about the Python-checkins
mailing list