Re: Functions that steal references (Re: [pygame] [patch] minor memory leaks...)

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:

> What a function that steals a reference does with an error is 
> undocumented. PyModule_AddObject only steals a referenece when it 
> succeeds. PyList_SetItem and PyTuple_SetItem always steals a reference. 
> The only way to find out which is the case is to examine the Python 
> source code.

Well, that's pretty unsatisfactory. The refcounting
behaviour on failure is just as important as any
other part of the function's spec, and needs to
be documented somewhere.

--
Greg