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[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Objects typeobject.c, 2.244, 2.245

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 9 00:17:55 EDT 2003 
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

> Maybe PyBool_FromLong() itself could make this unneeded by adding
> something like
> 
>     if (ok < 0 && PyErr_Occurred())
>         return NULL;
> 
> to its start?

Not sure if it would be a good idea to encourage reliance
on one API function doing error checking on behalf of others.
I can see someone coming along later and adding some code
in between whatever returned the result and the PyBool_FromLong
call, not realising that doing so would upset the error
checking.

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