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pythongh-141004: Document missing PyCFunction* and PyCMethod* APIs (pythonGH-141253)
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <[email protected]>
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slot. This is helpful because calls to PyCFunctions are optimized more
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than wrapper object calls.
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.. c:var:: PyTypeObject PyCMethod_Type
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The type object corresponding to Python C method objects. This is
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available as :class:`types.BuiltinMethodType` in the Python layer.
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.. c:function:: int PyCMethod_Check(PyObject *op)
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Return true if *op* is an instance of the :c:type:`PyCMethod_Type` type
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or a subtype of it. This function always succeeds.
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.. c:function:: int PyCMethod_CheckExact(PyObject *op)
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This is the same as :c:func:`PyCMethod_Check`, but does not account for
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subtypes.
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.. c:function:: PyObject * PyCMethod_New(PyMethodDef *ml, PyObject *self, PyObject *module, PyTypeObject *cls)
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Turn *ml* into a Python :term:`callable` object.
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.. versionadded:: 3.9
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.. c:var:: PyTypeObject PyCFunction_Type
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The type object corresponding to Python C function objects. This is
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available as :class:`types.BuiltinFunctionType` in the Python layer.
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.. c:function:: int PyCFunction_Check(PyObject *op)
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Return true if *op* is an instance of the :c:type:`PyCFunction_Type` type
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or a subtype of it. This function always succeeds.
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.. c:function:: int PyCFunction_CheckExact(PyObject *op)
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This is the same as :c:func:`PyCFunction_Check`, but does not account for
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subtypes.
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.. c:function:: PyObject * PyCFunction_NewEx(PyMethodDef *ml, PyObject *self, PyObject *module)
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Equivalent to ``PyCMethod_New(ml, self, module, NULL)``.
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Equivalent to ``PyCMethod_New(ml, self, NULL, NULL)``.
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.. c:function:: int PyCFunction_GetFlags(PyObject *func)
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Get the function's flags on *func* as they were passed to
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:c:member:`~PyMethodDef.ml_flags`.
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If *func* is not a C function object, this fails with an exception.
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*func* must not be ``NULL``.
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This function returns the function's flags on success, and ``-1`` with an
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exception set on failure.
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.. c:function:: int PyCFunction_GET_FLAGS(PyObject *func)
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This is the same as :c:func:`PyCFunction_GetFlags`, but without error
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or type checking.
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.. c:function:: PyCFunction PyCFunction_GetFunction(PyObject *func)
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Get the function pointer on *func* as it was passed to
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:c:member:`~PyMethodDef.ml_meth`.
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If *func* is not a C function object, this fails with an exception.
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*func* must not be ``NULL``.
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This function returns the function pointer on success, and ``NULL`` with an
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exception set on failure.
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.. c:function:: int PyCFunction_GET_FUNCTION(PyObject *func)
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This is the same as :c:func:`PyCFunction_GetFunction`, but without error
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or type checking.
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.. c:function:: PyObject *PyCFunction_GetSelf(PyObject *func)
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Get the "self" object on *func*. This is the object that would be passed
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to the first argument of a :c:type:`PyCFunction`. For C function objects
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created through a :c:type:`PyMethodDef` on a :c:type:`PyModuleDef`, this
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is the resulting module object.
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If *func* is not a C function object, this fails with an exception.
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*func* must not be ``NULL``.
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This function returns a :term:`borrowed reference` to the "self" object
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on success, and ``NULL`` with an exception set on failure.
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.. c:function:: PyObject *PyCFunction_GET_SELF(PyObject *func)
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This is the same as :c:func:`PyCFunction_GetSelf`, but without error or
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type checking.
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Accessing attributes of extension types
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