C

Author: JelleZijlstra

peps/pep-0661.rst

@@ -277,7 +277,9 @@ C API
 Sentinels can also be useful in C extensions. We propose two new
 C API functions:
 
-* ``PyObject *PySentinel_New(const char *name, const char *module_name)`` creates a new sentinel object.
+* ``PyObject *PySentinel_New(const char *name, const char *module_name, const char *repr)``
+  creates a new sentinel object. ``repr`` may be ``NULL``, in which case the sentinel's
+  repr will be the same as its name.
 * ``bool PySentinel_Check(PyObject *obj)`` checks if an object is a sentinel.
 
 C code can use the ``==`` operator to check if an object is a