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Title: Improvements to documentation for PyUnicode_FS{Converter,Decoder}
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Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: Antony.Lee, docs@python
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Created on 2020-12-19 12:51 by Antony.Lee, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg383378 - (view) Author: Antony Lee (Antony.Lee) * Date: 2020-12-19 12:51
The docs for PyUnicode_FSConverter and PyUnicode_FSDecoder could be improved on two points:

- The functions also reject str/bytes that contain null bytes (one can easily verify that there's a specific check for them in the C implementations).  Currently the docs only say that the converters use PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault/PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize, but those don't check for null bytes.

- The functions only ever return 1 or 0 (indicating success or failures), which means that one can just use e.g. `if (!PyUnicode_FSConverter(foo, &bar)) { goto error; } ...` (this pattern occurs repeatedly in the CPython codebase).  In theory, given that the functions are only documented as being "O&"-converters, they could also be returning Py_CLEANUP_SUPPORTED in which case they'd need to be called a second time on failure to release allocated memory.
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2022-04-11 14:59:39adminsetgithub: 86850
2020-12-19 12:51:17Antony.Leecreate