Jim Jewett wrote: > Would it solve this problem if there were a PyTEMPREF that magically > treated the refcount as an automatic variable? (It increfed > immediately, and decrefed whenever the function exited, without the > user having to track this manually.)
This would be wrong, because most functions return new references, which should *not* be increfed when assigned to a variable. How would you implement that in C anyway? (C++ could do it, but we're not going there, as far as I know.) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
