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authorAlex Martelli <aleaxit@gmail.com>2003-11-09 16:38:39 (GMT)
committerAlex Martelli <aleaxit@gmail.com>2003-11-09 16:38:39 (GMT)
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fixed buggy comment as per SF bug #827856
(same as commit of Sun Nov 2 to the release23-maint branch)
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diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
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+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -698,22 +698,22 @@ It takes a while to get used to the proper usage of reference counts.
Functions that create an object set the reference count to 1; such new
objects must be stored somewhere or destroyed again with Py_DECREF().
-Functions that 'store' objects such as PyTuple_SetItem() and
-PyDict_SetItemString()
+Some functions that 'store' objects, such as PyTuple_SetItem() and
+PyList_SetItem(),
don't increment the reference count of the object, since the most
frequent use is to store a fresh object. Functions that 'retrieve'
-objects such as PyTuple_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString() also
+objects, such as PyTuple_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString(), also
don't increment
the reference count, since most frequently the object is only looked at
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
-PyList_SetItemString() even consume the reference if the object wasn't
-stored, to simplify error handling.
+NOTE: functions that 'consume' a reference count, like
+PyList_SetItem(), consume the reference even if the object wasn't
+successfully 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
+argument consume a reference count; however, this may quickly get
confusing (even the current practice is already confusing). Consider
it carefully, it may save lots of calls to Py_INCREF() and Py_DECREF() at
times.