[Python-Dev] reference leaks, del, and annotations (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 5 02:17:59 CEST 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Of this kind, we have several spare bits: there are atleast two bits in the obtype field,

And that would require changing all code that dereferenced the ob_type field! This would be much worse -- at least Py_INCREF and Py_DECREF are macros...

-- Greg



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