On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 03:20, Inada Naoki wrote:
> In general, when reference is borrowed from a caller, the reference is
> available during the API.
> But merge_dict borrows reference of key/value from other dict, not caller.
> [...]
> Again, insertdict takes the reference. So _PyDict_FromKeys()
On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 11:22 PM Marco Sulla
wrote:
>
> I noticed that some functions inside dictobject.c that call insertdict
> or PyDict_SetItem do an incref of key and value before the call, and a
> decref after it. An example is dict_merge.
First of all, insertdict and PyDict is totally
I noticed that some functions inside dictobject.c that call insertdict
or PyDict_SetItem do an incref of key and value before the call, and a
decref after it. An example is dict_merge. Other functions, such as
_PyDict_FromKeys, don't do an incref before.
When an incref of key and value is needed
