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Title: error in multiprocessing docs - rawvalue
Type: Stage:
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 3.0, Python 2.6
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: georg.brandl Nosy List: dursobr, georg.brandl
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2008-11-20 15:19 by dursobr, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (2)
msg76108 - (view) Author: Brian D'Urso (dursobr) Date: 2008-11-20 15:19
There is an error in the multiprocessing package documentation:
In the sentence:

'Note that an array of ctypes.c_char has value and rawvalue attributes
which allow one to use it to store and retrieve strings.'

The error is that 'rawvalue' should be 'raw'.
This sentence actually occurs in two places: under multiprocessing.Array
and just before multiprocessing.sharedctypes.Array. It looks to me like
the second occurrence of the sentence is in the wrong place - I think it
should be in the multiprocessing.sharedctypes.Array section instead of
just before it.


To see that the attribute name is 'raw', just do:

>>> import ctypes, multiprocessing
>>> dir(multiprocessing.Array(ctypes.c_char, 1))

==> ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__format__',
'__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__hash__',
'__init__', '__len__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
'__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__',
'__setslice__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__',
'__weakref__', '_lock', '_obj', 'acquire', 'get_lock', 'get_obj', 'raw',
'release', 'value']
msg76236 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2008-11-22 08:34
Fixed in r67330.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:41adminsetgithub: 48614
2008-11-22 08:34:22georg.brandlsetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: fixed
messages: + msg76236
2008-11-20 15:19:26dursobrcreate