Fix in trailing comment: PyDict_SetItemString() does *not* consume a reference

count, PyList_SetItem() does. Very confusing!

Fix in trailing comment: PyDict_SetItemString() does not consume a reference
count, PyList_SetItem() does. Very confusing!
10e46444 · Fred Drake · 614aaf7e · 10e46444
Commit 10e46444 authored Sep 05, 1997 by Fred Drake
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@@ -461,9 +461,8 @@ quickly.  Thus, to retrieve an object and store it again, the caller
 must call Py_INCREF() explicitly.
 NOTE: functions that 'consume' a reference count like
-PyDict_SetItemString() even
+PyList_SetItemString() even consume the reference if the object wasn't
-consume the reference if the object wasn't stored, to simplify error
+stored, to simplify error handling.
-handling.
 It seems attractive to make other functions that take an object as
 argument consume a reference count; however this may quickly get