On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't know who designed that API but what is the reason for
>> PyException_Set{Traceback,Cause,Context} not to INCREF their argument? It
>>
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
what is the reason for
PyException_Set{Traceback,Cause,Context} not to INCREF their argument?
Probably because the vast majority of the time the
caller is not doing anything further with these
references, so this arrangement saves some increfs
and decrefs.
--
Greg
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know who designed that API but what is the reason for
> PyException_Set{Traceback,Cause,Context} not to INCREF their argument? It
> means
> the caller has to do it himself, and seems inconsistent with most of Pyth
