[Python-Dev] Assertion in _PyManagedBuffer_FromObject() (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Sat Mar 3 13:52:18 CET 2012


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

2. the current check is too strict (it should just check for obj != NULL, not obj == &exporter)

Yes. For anyone who is interested, see issue #14181.

3. the current check is in the wrong place (it should be in PyObjectGetBuffer)

Agreed, since it's not memoryview specific. But I don't think we even need to check for obj != NULL. view.obj was undocumented, and since 3.0 Include/object.h contains this:

typedef struct bufferinfo { void *buf; PyObject obj; / owned reference */

So it would be somewhat audacious to set this field to NULL. But even if existing code uses the view.obj==NULL scheme from PyBuffer_FillInfo() correctly, it will still work in the new implementation.

I'd just prefer to forbid this in the documentation, because it's much easier to remember: getbuffer "returns" a new reference or NULL.

Stefan Krah



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