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diff --git a/doc/source/reference/arrays.interface.rst b/doc/source/reference/arrays.interface.rst index cf4708b4b..c6da326d7 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/arrays.interface.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/arrays.interface.rst @@ -330,8 +330,10 @@ largely aesthetic. In particular: Now it must be a tuple whose first element is a string with "PyArrayInterface Version #" and whose second element is the object exposing the array. - This design was retracted in <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2006-June/020995.html>, and is an error to have relied - upon in the intermediate 14 years. + This design was retracted almost immediately after it was proposed, in + <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2006-June/020995.html>. + Despite 14 years of documentation to the contrary, at no point was it valid + to assume that ``__array_interface__`` capsules held this tuple content. 3. The tuple returned from ``__array_interface__['data']`` used to be a hex-string (now it is an integer or a long integer). |