[Python-checkins] Document the lifetime of `PyUnicode_AsUTF8String` (GH-92325)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/60407e8a1937cc4aaf6218a957743f62482257a1
commit: 60407e8a1937cc4aaf6218a957743f62482257a1
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-05-06T02:56:55-07:00
summary:
Document the lifetime of `PyUnicode_AsUTF8String` (GH-92325)
The current wording implied this, but didn't state it explicitly.
(cherry picked from commit 740da8d37a84638f4a8893bee3648f36fc6beb0f)
Co-authored-by: Matt Wozniski <godlygeek at gmail.com>
files:
M Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index a6ae8ba13657d..8bdcad63363b5 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -1110,7 +1110,8 @@ These are the UTF-8 codec APIs:
This caches the UTF-8 representation of the string in the Unicode object, and
subsequent calls will return a pointer to the same buffer. The caller is not
- responsible for deallocating the buffer.
+ responsible for deallocating the buffer. The buffer is deallocated and
+ pointers to it become invalid when the Unicode object is garbage collected.
.. versionadded:: 3.3
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