Euler Taveira de Oliveira added the comment:
I know that it is a good programming practice checking null pointers but
sometimes programmers are lazy. ;) I still think that high level
functions should check for null pointers.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira added the comment:
It seems PyDict_DelItemString() and PyDict_SetItem() suffer from the
same disease. :( Both use assert() to detect a null pointer but fail to
prevent it. As I stated in the previous comment, maybe the right fix is
to replace assert() with the 'if
New submission from Euler Taveira de Oliveira :
PyDict_SetItemString() fails when the second argument (key) is null
pointer. It occurs because PyString_FromString(key) call doesn't check
for null pointer and if we're in a disabled assert environment the
assert() is not caught and strl
