[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification (original) (raw)

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 PyArgParseTupleAndKeywords'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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