On 8/7/05, Edward C. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the source code, PyTuple_Pack returns a new reference (it > calls PyTuple_New). It also Py_INCREF's all the objects in the new > tuple. Is this unusual behavior? None of these added references are > documented in the API Reference Manual.
This seems the only sensible behavior given what it does. I think the INCREFs don't need to be documented because you don't have to worry about them -- they follow the normal pattern of reference counts: if you owned an object before passing it to PyTuple_Pack(), you still own it afterwards. The docs say that it returns a new object, so that's in order too. It's not listed in refcounts.dat; that seems an omission (or perhaps the function's varargs signature doesn't fit in the pattern?). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
