From 740da8d37a84638f4a8893bee3648f36fc6beb0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 05:37:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document the lifetime of `PyUnicode_AsUTF8String` (#92325)
The current wording implied this, but didn't state it explicitly.
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Doc/c-api/unicode.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 00faac5b69a..d139112578c 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -1075,7 +1075,8 @@ These are the UTF-8 codec APIs:
This caches the UTF-8 representation of the string in the Unicode object, and
subsequent calls will return a pointer to the same buffer. The caller is not
- responsible for deallocating the buffer.
+ responsible for deallocating the buffer. The buffer is deallocated and
+ pointers to it become invalid when the Unicode object is garbage collected.
.. versionadded:: 3.3
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