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Kirill Smelkov
cpython
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721b7761
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721b7761
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Nov 09, 2003
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Alex Martelli
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fixed buggy comment as per SF bug #827856
(same as commit of Sun Nov 2 to the release23-maint branch)
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@@ -698,22 +698,22 @@ It takes a while to get used to the proper usage of reference counts.
Functions that create an object set the reference count to 1; such new
objects must be stored somewhere or destroyed again with Py_DECREF().
Functions that 'store' objects
such as PyTuple_SetItem() and
Py
Dict_SetItemString()
Some functions that 'store' objects,
such as PyTuple_SetItem() and
Py
List_SetItem(),
don't increment the reference count of the object, since the most
frequent use is to store a fresh object. Functions that 'retrieve'
objects
such as PyTuple_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString()
also
objects
, such as PyTuple_GetItem() and PyDict_GetItemString(),
also
don't increment
the reference count, since most frequently the object is only looked at
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
PyList_SetItem
String() even consume the reference
if the object wasn't
stored, to simplify error handling.
NOTE: functions that 'consume' a reference count
,
like
PyList_SetItem
(), consume the reference even
if the object wasn't
s
uccessfully s
tored, to simplify error handling.
It seems attractive to make other functions that take an object as
argument consume a reference count; however this may quickly get
argument consume a reference count; however
,
this may quickly get
confusing (even the current practice is already confusing). Consider
it carefully, it may save lots of calls to Py_INCREF() and Py_DECREF() at
times.
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