Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The bytes object cannot "leak" so, as you say, checking that refcount > is pointless. But the view might "leak", and since it does not own a > reference to the base object we have a problem: we can't deallocate the > bytes object for fear of breaking the view.
Indeed, that's a problem (but your patch does deallocate the bytes object). It's quite fishy, I'm not sure how to solve the issue cleanly. Stefan, do you have an idea? ---------- nosy: +skrah _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15903> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com