[Python-Dev] Borrowed and Stolen References in API (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 10 03:28:04 CEST 2011


Marvin Humphrey wrote:

incremented: The caller has to account for an additional refcount. decremented: The caller has to account for a lost refcount.

I'm not sure that really clarifies anything. These terms sound like they're talking about the reference count of the object, but if they correspond to borrowed/stolen, they don't necessarily correlate with what actually happens to the reference count.

-- Greg



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