On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Marcus von Appen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > would it be good to try and turn that into an exception? like if the > > PixelArray would check the lock count or something? > > Surfaces do not feature a tracking of lock counts at the moment. And > checking for an existing lock might mess up user intendend locking > behaviour, I think. > > I was only thinking it would check for a count of 0 - it is a clearly invalid lock count to have while PixelArray is still in existence, regardless of what the user did The problem as I see it is that seg faults and corrupted memory are both really really bad bugs that I wish I could never get when using python as they are the sort of bugs whose behavior is inconsistent so you could miss them when developing but leave in production, and because they are not strongly tied to their actual cause Also, if people aren't sticking to the docs, then the docs aren't effective
