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Doc: fix PyBytesWriter sample code #160756

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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions Doc/c-api/bytes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Variant using a pointer to compute the final size::

char *str = PyBytesWriter_GetData(writer);
memcpy(str, "abc", 3);
str += 1;
str += 3;
return PyBytesWriter_FinishWithPointer(writer, str);
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ Update ``_PyBytes_Resize()`` code

Example of code using the soft deprecated ``_PyBytes_Resize()`` API::

void create_string(Py_ssize_t size)
PyObject* create_string(Py_ssize_t size)
{
PyObject *bytes = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, size);
if (bytes == NULL) {
Expand All @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ Example of code using the soft deprecated ``_PyBytes_Resize()`` API::

It can now be updated to::

void create_string(Py_ssize_t size)
PyObject* create_string(Py_ssize_t size)
{
PyBytesWriter *writer = PyBytesWriter_Create(size);
if (writer == NULL) {
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