[Python-Dev] Proposal: C API Macro to decref and set to NULL (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 13 06:27:07 CEST 2004
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> Just my two cents, but the name suggests to me that it's doing > more than a simple decref and set to NULL. I can't think of > anything else off the top of my head that seems obviously better > though.
PyXDECREFNULL?
Bleah.
In pystate.c you'll find:
#define ZAP(x) {
PyObject *tmp = (PyObject *)(x);
(x) = NULL;
Py_XDECREF(tmp);
}
Call it Py_ZAP and you have my vote. :-)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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