Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: This is _PyString_Resize(). I don't immediatlly see an error case where the string isn't freed:
int _PyString_Resize(PyObject **pv, Py_ssize_t newsize) { register PyObject *v; register PyStringObject *sv; v = *pv; if (!PyString_Check(v) || Py_REFCNT(v) != 1 || newsize < 0 || PyString_CHECK_INTERNED(v)) { *pv = 0; Py_DECREF(v); PyErr_BadInternalCall(); return -1; } /* XXX UNREF/NEWREF interface should be more symmetrical */ _Py_DEC_REFTOTAL; _Py_ForgetReference(v); *pv = (PyObject *) PyObject_REALLOC((char *)v, PyStringObject_SIZE + newsize); if (*pv == NULL) { PyObject_Del(v); PyErr_NoMemory(); return -1; } _Py_NewReference(*pv); sv = (PyStringObject *) *pv; Py_SIZE(sv) = newsize; sv->ob_sval[newsize] = '\0'; sv->ob_shash = -1; /* invalidate cached hash value */ return 0; } ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20434> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com