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Expand Up @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ Guidelines for expanding/changing the public API
and ``NULL`` if and only if an exception is raised.
Other API must return ``0`` on success,
and a negative value if and only if an exception is raised.
Unless there is need to distinguish between error types,
``-1`` should be used as the error value.
``-1`` should be used as the error value;
the caller should use the C idiom ``if (func() < 0)`` to check for errors.

- APIs with lesser and greater results must return ``0`` for the lesser result,
and ``1`` for the greater result.
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