From: Stefan Behnel <scoder@users.berlios.de>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 21:19:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: clarification
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b0dd28c2dbead4098bbee4c827f17a3a3b2be88;p=cython.git

clarification
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diff --git a/src/tutorial/strings.rst b/src/tutorial/strings.rst
index 7fbf6fb1..b20452fe 100644
--- a/src/tutorial/strings.rst
+++ b/src/tutorial/strings.rst
@@ -153,8 +153,10 @@ explicitly, and the following will print ``A`` (or ``b'A'`` in Python
 
     print( <bytes>char_val )
 
-The coercion will also happen automatically when assigning to a typed
-variable, e.g.::
+The explicit coercion works for any C integer type.  Values outside of
+the range of a ``char`` will raise an ``OverflowError``.  Coercion
+will also happen automatically when assigning to a typed variable,
+e.g.::
 
     cdef bytes py_byte_string = char_val