[Python-Dev] PyObject_New vs PyObject_NEW (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:57:25 +0100

David Abrahams wrote:

Someone I work with recently caused a test to start asserting in VC7's instrumented free() call, using a pydebug build. He explained the change this way:

"I switched from PyObjectNew to PyObjectNEW, which according to it's documentation omits the check for typeobject != 0 and consequently should run a little bit faster" [he doesn't ever pass 0 as the typeobject] Did he miss some other important fact about PyObjectNEW? Does the doc need to be fixed?

Does he use PyObject_DEL() to free the object ?

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