Message 168239 - Python tracker

Message168239

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Robin.Schreiber, gregory.p.smith, gstein, loewis, pitrou
Date	2012-08-14.20:04:19
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Le mardi 14 août 2012 à 19:55 +0000, Robin Schreiber a écrit : > As of now, I do not know of HeapTypes being excluded from refcounting. No, but see http://bugs.python.org/issue15142 It's not obvious to me that the type should be explicitly decref'ed from the tp_dealloc function. This will make things more complicated for people willing to migrate their extensions to the stable ABI. Also, all this is not documented at all :-(

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Le mardi 14 août 2012 à 19:55 +0000, Robin Schreiber a écrit :
> As of now, I do not know of HeapTypes being excluded from refcounting.

No, but see http://bugs.python.org/issue15142
It's not obvious to me that the type should be explicitly decref'ed from the tp_dealloc function. This will make things more complicated for people willing to migrate their extensions to the stable ABI.

Also, all this is not documented at all :-(

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