# HG changeset patch
# Parent a2df4baa112ba329f4a05c47812df22f40068ea2

diff -r a2df4baa112b Doc/c-api/buffer.rst
--- a/Doc/c-api/buffer.rst	Wed Apr 01 13:06:18 2015 +0300
+++ b/Doc/c-api/buffer.rst	Fri Apr 03 01:52:31 2015 +0000
@@ -285,7 +285,12 @@
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 C or Fortran contiguity can be explicitly requested, with and without stride
-information. Without stride information, the buffer must be C-contiguous.
+information. Without stride information, the buffer must be C-contiguous,
+meaning that its memory layout must be like an array in C. Zero-dimensional
+buffers are considered C-contiguous. Multi-dimensional buffers are considered
+C-contiguous if they are layed out as an array of sub-arrays, if indexes in
+the first dimension apply to the outer array, and the sub-arrays are also
+C-contiguous.
 
 .. tabularcolumns:: |p{0.35\linewidth}|l|l|l|l|
 
diff -r a2df4baa112b Doc/glossary.rst
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst	Wed Apr 01 13:06:18 2015 +0300
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst	Fri Apr 03 01:52:31 2015 +0000
@@ -86,8 +86,10 @@
          A :term:`text file` reads and writes :class:`str` objects.
 
    bytes-like object
-      An object that supports the :ref:`bufferobjects`, like :class:`bytes`,
-      :class:`bytearray` or :class:`memoryview`.  Bytes-like objects can
+      An object that supports the :ref:`bufferobjects` and can
+      export a C-contiguous buffer. This includes all :class:`bytes`,
+      :class:`bytearray`, and :class:`array.array` objects, as well as many
+      common :class:`memoryview` objects.  Bytes-like objects can
       be used for various operations that expect binary data, such as
       compression, saving to a binary file or sending over a socket.
       Some operations need the binary data to be mutable, in which case