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r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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#7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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#7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#8172: how does one use a property?
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#9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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#8861: remove unused variable.
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r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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#9037: add example how to raise custom exceptions from C code.
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r83565 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:27:20 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#9111: document that do_help() looks at docstrings.
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r83571 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:44:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
Clarify that abs() is not a namespace.
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r83574 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:47:56 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#6867: epoll.register() returns None.
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r83575 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:52:10 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line
#9238: zipfile does handle archive comments.
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diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
index 5408b88..2d9594a 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
@@ -228,9 +228,28 @@
become a dangling pointer. Should it become a dangling pointer, C code which
raises the exception could cause a core dump or other unintended side effects.
-We discuss the use of PyMODINIT_FUNC as a function return type later in this
+We discuss the use of ``PyMODINIT_FUNC`` as a function return type later in this
sample.
+The :exc:`spam.error` exception can be raised in your extension module using a
+call to :cfunc:`PyErr_SetString` as shown below::
+
+ static PyObject *
+ spam_system(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+ {
+ const char *command;
+ int sts;
+
+ if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s", &command))
+ return NULL;
+ sts = system(command);
+ if (sts < 0) {
+ PyErr_SetString(SpamError, "System command failed");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ return PyLong_FromLong(sts);
+ }
+
.. _backtoexample: