From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:10:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document 'y(#)' format codes for Py_BuildValue
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document 'y(#)' format codes for Py_BuildValue
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
index c3d051a858..94f62f1328 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst
@@ -424,6 +424,14 @@ and the following format units are left untouched.
       Convert a C string and its length to a Python object.  If the C string pointer
       is *NULL*, the length is ignored and ``None`` is returned.
 
+   ``y`` (bytes) [char \*, int]
+      This converts a C string to a Python :func:`bytes` object.  If the C
+      string pointer is *NULL*, ``None`` is returned.
+
+   ``y#`` (bytes) [char \*, int]
+      This converts a C string and its lengths to a Python object.  If the C
+      string pointer is *NULL*, ``None`` is returned.
+
    ``z`` (string or ``None``) [char \*]
       Same as ``s``.