[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

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[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

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[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

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[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

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[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

Inada Naoki added the comment: > Oh! Fair enough, I had missed it. Does the note also involve `Py_BuildValue`? > If so, the documentation of `Py_BuildValue` should probably be updated; if > not, I think it would be clearer if the note mentioned that it only applies > to parsing, not building

[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

Enrico Zini added the comment: Oh! Fair enough, I had missed it. Does the note also involve `Py_BuildValue`? If so, the documentation of `Py_BuildValue` should probably be updated; if not, I think it would be clearer if the note mentioned that it only applies to parsing, not building, values

[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

Inada Naoki added the comment: See note in https://docs.python.org/3.9/c-api/arg.html#strings-and-buffers """ Note: For all # variants of formats (s#, y#, etc.), the type of the length argument (int or Py_ssize_t) is controlled by defining the macro PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN before including Python.h

[issue37465] Incorrect documentation for `s#` arguments in C API argument parsing

New submission from Enrico Zini : In https://docs.python.org/3.9/c-api/arg.html, in the documentation for parsing argument, there is: s# (str, read-only bytes-like object) [const char *, int or Py_ssize_t] In my amd64 system, `Py_ssize_t` is a different type than `int`, and passing a `P