Message 141959 - Python tracker

Message141959

Author	JJeffries
Recipients	JJeffries, docs@python
Date	2011-08-12.14:43:02
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The Python C API manual page for data marshaling contains the following paragraph. 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? I suggest that the XXX should be removed as it is unclear why it's there. Patch to follow in the next couple of days if others agree.

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The Python C API manual page for data marshaling contains the following paragraph.

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?

I suggest that the XXX should be removed as it is unclear why it's there.

Patch to follow in the next couple of days if others agree.

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