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  r71031 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 20:17:39 -0700 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 6 lines

  PyImport_AppendInittab() took a char * as a first argument even though that
  string was stored beyond the life of the call. Changed the signature to be
  const char * to help make this point.

  Closes issue #1419652.
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Doc/c-api/import.rst

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Importing Modules
    tricks with this to provide a dynamically created collection of frozen modules.
 
 
-.. cfunction:: int PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, PyObject* (*initfunc)(void))
+.. cfunction:: int PyImport_AppendInittab(const char *name, PyObject* (*initfunc)(void))
 
    Add a single module to the existing table of built-in modules.  This is a
    convenience wrapper around :cfunc:`PyImport_ExtendInittab`, returning ``-1`` if

Include/import.h

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct _inittab {
 PyAPI_DATA(PyTypeObject) PyNullImporter_Type;
 PyAPI_DATA(struct _inittab *) PyImport_Inittab;
 
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, PyObject* (*initfunc)(void));
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyImport_AppendInittab(const char *name, PyObject* (*initfunc)(void));
 PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyImport_ExtendInittab(struct _inittab *newtab);
 
 struct _frozen {

Python/import.c

@@ -3488,13 +3488,13 @@ PyImport_ExtendInittab(struct _inittab *newtab)
 /* Shorthand to add a single entry given a name and a function */
 
 int
-PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, PyObject* (*initfunc)(void))
+PyImport_AppendInittab(const char *name, PyObject* (*initfunc)(void))
 {
 	struct _inittab newtab[2];
 
 	memset(newtab, '\0', sizeof newtab);
 
-	newtab[0].name = name;
+	newtab[0].name = (char *)name;
 	newtab[0].initfunc = initfunc;
 
 	return PyImport_ExtendInittab(newtab);