commit ef19fd200d0768919f1658466f8b6080b191fba0
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Wed Jul 11 19:49:17 2018 +0300
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Wed Jul 11 19:49:17 2018 +0300
tree cb396ceee187b10b4e55a7468a834a798611fcca
parent 6f036bb67d5a20c86c29ea5aeace563e3751baab

[2.7] bpo-23927: Make getargs.c skipitem() skipping 'w*'. (GH-8192). (GH-8255)

(cherry picked from commit 504373c59b48f1ea12132d515459022730db6047)

Also backport tests for skipitem() and handling errors.

Python/getargs.c

diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
index 32ff6fc..cc1ddde 100644
--- a/Python/getargs.c
+++ b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@
                 else
                     (void) va_arg(*p_va, int *);
                 format++;
-            } else if ((c == 's' || c == 'z') && *format == '*') {
+            } else if ((c == 's' || c == 'z' || c == 'w') && *format == '*') {
                 format++;
             }
             break;