Stefan Behnel, 23.08.2012 11:16: > Stefan Behnel, 03.07.2012 19:56: >> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, 03.07.2012 18:26: >>> Maybe we should use a weak dictionary to cache the PyObject structure. >>> This already exists for objects defined and created from C... >> >> That would be really helpful. In particular, it would solve one of the most >> annoying problems that extensions currently have: even if you keep a Python >> reference to an object, e.g. in a list, its PyObject structure will die >> once the last C reference to it is gone. That is really hard to work around >> in some cases. It's very common to keep e.g. a Python list (or set) of byte >> strings and pass their char* buffer pointers into a C library. That doesn't >> currently work with cpyext. > > Ok, so where would this have to be done? Is there a way to implement it > generically in that ubiquitous space.wrap() kind of call (whatever that > does internally), or would it have to be done explicitly whenever objects > pass the boundary?
Any comments? I think this would solve a lot of problems. Stefan _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
