commit 6f25ced08ea538b55e1a942c4bed48dae5d30de7
author Cyril Stoller <stocyr@users.noreply.github.com> Mon Aug 27 13:37:51 2018 +0200
committer Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Mon Aug 27 07:37:51 2018 -0400
tree 2a5704ec5da3a495ed941a92f6b8072b97926256
parent 0e6c553bc57587dc644430b7336e6bf4d90180a6

Add note on zero-based certificate version value (#790)

src/OpenSSL/crypto.py

diff --git a/src/OpenSSL/crypto.py b/src/OpenSSL/crypto.py
index ea7b354..51063b5 100644
--- a/src/OpenSSL/crypto.py
+++ b/src/OpenSSL/crypto.py
@@ -1128,7 +1128,8 @@
 
     def set_version(self, version):
         """
-        Set the version number of the certificate.
+        Set the version number of the certificate. Note that the
+        version value is zero-based, eg. a value of 0 is V1.
 
         :param version: The version number of the certificate.
         :type version: :py:class:`int`