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diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst index a83fb6e579..8cc41840d7 100644 --- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst @@ -413,6 +413,13 @@ A more substantial example module is included in the Python source distribution as :file:`Modules/xxmodule.c`. This file may be used as a template or simply read as an example. +.. note:: + + Unlike our ``spam`` example, ``xxmodule`` uses *multi-phase initialization* + (new in Python 3.5), where a PyModuleDef structure is returned from + ``PyInit_spam``, and creation of the module is left to the import machinery. + For details on multi-phase initialization, see :PEP:`489`. + .. _compilation: |