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[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Fri Feb 10 19:05:41 CET 2006 
On 2/10/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>     [Jeremy]
>     I added some const to several API functions that take char* but
>     typically called by passing string literals.
>
> If he had _stuck_ to that, we wouldn't be having this discussion :-)
> (that is, nobody passes string literals to
> PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords's kws argument).

They are passing arrays of string literals.  In my mind, that was a
nearly equivalent use case.  I believe the C++ compiler complains
about passing an array of string literals to char**.

Jeremy
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