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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1997-09-05 17:53:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1997-09-05 17:53:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 49bb0e32a03c056a42df5c8d90347db19d3cb2d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f4e5db9189fe17671752bb52167db163ccc2341 | |
| parent | aee0bad0a50f9f533267d241bea97a0b2118f238 (diff) | |
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Fix in trailing comment: PyDict_SetItemString() does *not* consume a reference
count, PyList_SetItem() does. Very confusing!
| -rw-r--r-- | Include/object.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h index 65e25bc..b3f18d7 100644 --- a/Include/object.h +++ b/Include/object.h @@ -461,9 +461,8 @@ quickly. Thus, to retrieve an object and store it again, the caller must call Py_INCREF() explicitly. NOTE: functions that 'consume' a reference count like -PyDict_SetItemString() even -consume the reference if the object wasn't stored, to simplify error -handling. +PyList_SetItemString() even consume the reference if the object wasn't +stored, to simplify error handling. It seems attractive to make other functions that take an object as argument consume a reference count; however this may quickly get |