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Add const to several API functions that take char *.

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In C++, it's an error to pass a string literal to a char* function
without a const_cast().  Rather than require every C++ extension
module to put a cast around string literals, fix the API to state the
const-ness.

I focused on parts of the API where people usually pass literals:
PyArg_ParseTuple() and friends, Py_BuildValue(), PyMethodDef, the type
slots, etc.  Predictably, there were a large set of functions that
needed to be fixed as a result of these changes.  The most pervasive
change was to make the keyword args list passed to
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKewords() to be a const char *kwlist[].

One cast was required as a result of the changes:  A type object
mallocs the memory for its tp_doc slot and later frees it.
PyTypeObject says that tp_doc is const char *; but if the type was
created by type_new(), we know it is safe to cast to char *.
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Jeremy Hylton 2005-12-10 18:50:16 +00:00
parent aaa2f1dea7
commit af68c874a6
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Modules/socketmodule.c
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@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@ sock_initobj(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
PySocketSockObject *s = (PySocketSockObject *)self;
SOCKET_T fd;
int family = AF_INET, type = SOCK_STREAM, proto = 0;
static char *keywords[] = {"family", "type", "proto", 0};
static const char *keywords[] = {"family", "type", "proto", 0};
if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds,
"|iii:socket", keywords,