"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> As Fredrik pointed out a while back, the PyObject approach doesn't >> *have* to involve manual decref operations - PyObject's come with a >> ready made arena structure, in the form of PyList. > > That doesn't really work: PyList_Append (which you would have to use) > duplicates the reference, so you would still have to decref it > explicitly.
Hmm - perhaps we should have a set of Arena functions/macros e.g. PyArena_Add - works like PyList_Append, but doesn't duplicate the reference (or immediately decrefs it). I'm sure there are other parts of the code base that would benefit from this. Tim Delaney _______________________________________________ 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
