Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 13:28:11 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote [concerning the Doc/data/refcounts.dat file]:
This is not always true, for example when the item is already present
in the dict.
It's not important to know what the function does to the object,
Only the action on the reference is relevant.
Yes, that's the whole point. When using a functon,
what you need to know is whether it borrows or steals
a reference.
Doesn't "borrow" mean the same as "steal" in that context?
If an API borrows a reference, I expect it to take it from me.
"Stealing" takes the ownership. Borrowing does not.
This explains it better:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/c-api/intro.html#reference-count-details
Cheers,
Mark.
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