Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis...@gmail.com> added the comment: Why? Callee-borrowing-from-caller is the established norm across the C API. You mention use-after-free, but can you elaborate on how that can happen in practice?
https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html?highlight=borrowed#ownership-rules says: """When you pass an object reference into another function, in general, the function borrows the reference from you — if it needs to store it, it will use Py_INCREF() to become an independent owner.""" ---------- nosy: +Dennis Sweeney _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46561> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
