Extended tuple's C API to include a new function, PyTuple_Pack() that is
useful for rapidly building argument tuples without having to invoke the
more sophisticated machinery of Py_BuildValue().
diff --git a/Doc/api/concrete.tex b/Doc/api/concrete.tex
index 5b0d9e3..7b84092 100644
--- a/Doc/api/concrete.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/concrete.tex
@@ -973,7 +973,7 @@
\cdata{Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding} as the encoding for file
names. This variable should be treated as read-only: On some systems,
it will be a pointer to a static string, on others, it will change at
-run-time, e.g. when the application invokes setlocale.
+run-time (such as when the application invokes setlocale).
Error handling is set by errors which may also be set to \NULL{}
meaning to use the default handling defined for the codec. Default
@@ -1584,6 +1584,14 @@
Return a new tuple object of size \var{len}, or \NULL{} on failure.
\end{cfuncdesc}
+\begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyTuple_Pack}{int n, \moreargs}
+ Return a new tuple object of size \var{n}, or \NULL{} on failure.
+ The tuple values are initialized to the subsequent \var{n} C arguments
+ pointing to Python objects. \samp{PyTuple_Pack(2, \var{a}, \var{b})}
+ is equivalent to \samp{Py_BuildValue("(OO)", \var{a}, \var{b})}.
+ \versionadded{2.4}
+\end{cfuncdesc}
+
\begin{cfuncdesc}{int}{PyTuple_Size}{PyObject *p}
Takes a pointer to a tuple object, and returns the size of that
tuple.