https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1c5a11018ad605072b2efac67f3ca87b41b622c6 commit: 1c5a11018ad605072b2efac67f3ca87b41b622c6 branch: main author: Rafael Weingartner-Ortner <[email protected]> committer: StanFromIreland <[email protected]> date: 2026-06-22T21:01:09+01:00 summary:
gh-62480: De-personalize docs on using the C API (#151784) Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]> files: M Doc/extending/extending.rst diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst index d33cbd2813d637b..110dfea8cb98abe 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst @@ -231,10 +231,8 @@ calling the Python callback functions from a C callback. Other uses are also imaginable. Fortunately, the Python interpreter is easily called recursively, and there is a -standard interface to call a Python function. (I won't dwell on how to call the -Python parser with a particular string as input --- if you're interested, have a -look at the implementation of the :option:`-c` command line option in -:file:`Modules/main.c` from the Python source code.) +standard interface to call a Python function. (If you're interested in how to call the +Python parser with a particular string as input, see :ref:`veryhigh`.) Calling a Python function is easy. First, the Python program must somehow pass you the Python function object. You should provide a function (or some other @@ -641,7 +639,7 @@ and the object is freed. An alternative strategy is called :dfn:`automatic garbage collection`. (Sometimes, reference counting is also referred to as a garbage collection -strategy, hence my use of "automatic" to distinguish the two.) The big +strategy, hence the use of "automatic" to distinguish the two.) The big advantage of automatic garbage collection is that the user doesn't need to call :c:func:`free` explicitly. (Another claimed advantage is an improvement in speed or memory usage --- this is no hard fact however.) The disadvantage is that for _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
