[Python-Dev] [Python 2.4] PyInt_FromLong returning NULL (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 19:02:51 CET 2004

[Jim Fulton]

Ugh. Part of the problem is that all of those calls are unchecked, Dang us. If they were checked, then, who knows, we might have gotten informative exceptions.

They certainly "should" be checked, but as a pragmatic matter PyInt_FromLong(1) can't fail -- Python allocates an int object for 1 (and for about 100 other popular little integers) when it starts up, and PyInt_FromLong() just returns a new reference to these pre-existing objects whenever possible. So, wrt:

I'd say the first step should be to add checks

that's probably not going to help. I'd make it the fourth thing .

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