[Lxml-checkins] r43345 - lxml/trunk

[scoder at codespeak.net]

Author: scoder
Date: Mon May 14 10:33:47 2007
New Revision: 43345

Modified:
   lxml/trunk/update-error-constants.py
Log:
comment

Modified: lxml/trunk/update-error-constants.py
==============================================================================
--- lxml/trunk/update-error-constants.py	(original)
+++ lxml/trunk/update-error-constants.py	Mon May 14 10:33:47 2007
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@
 append_pxi('''\
 # Constants are stored in tuples of strings, for which Pyrex generates very
 # efficient setup code.  To parse them, iterate over the tuples and parse each
-# line in each string independently.
+# line in each string independently.  Tuples of strings (instead of a plain
+# string) are required as some C-compilers of a certain well-known OS vendor
+# cannot handle strings that are a few thousand bytes in length.
 ''')
 
 ctypedef_indent = ' '*4