Greg Ewing wrote:
Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
What a function that steals a reference does with an error is
undocumented. PyModule_AddObject only steals a referenece when it
succeeds. PyList_SetItem and PyTuple_SetItem always steals a
reference. The only way to find out which is the case is to examine
the Python source code.
Well, that's pretty unsatisfactory. The refcounting
behaviour on failure is just as important as any
other part of the function's spec, and needs to
be documented somewhere.
Hi Greg,
For this one I think your reputation will carry more weight than mine at
python.org. Personally I've been cultivating a reputation for submitting
bug reports (*) over nitpicky interpretations of the documentation
involving obscure corner cases no one cares about anyway.
Lenard
(*) The Python maintainers had the chance to ditch me when they ported
bug tracking from SourceForge to their own internal tracker. But they
copied my SourceForge account along with those of everyone else who had
posted a Python but report. Their mistake.
