Merge pull request #268 from FrancescAlted/master

The docs should stress that functions that create arrays actually steals a reference to dtype descriptor

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst b/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst
index 89981a977..8eedc689a 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/c-api.array.rst
@@ -224,6 +224,8 @@ From scratch
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyArray_NewFromDescr(PyTypeObject* subtype, PyArray_Descr* descr, int nd, npy_intp* dims, npy_intp* strides, void* data, int flags, PyObject* obj)
 
+    This function steals a reference to *descr* if it is not NULL.
+
     This is the main array creation function. Most new arrays are
     created with this flexible function.
 
@@ -322,6 +324,8 @@ From scratch
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyArray_SimpleNewFromDescr(int nd, npy_intp* dims, PyArray_Descr* descr)
 
+    This function steals a reference to *descr* if it is not NULL.
+
     Create a new array with the provided data-type descriptor, *descr*
     , of the shape deteremined by *nd* and *dims*.