[Python-Dev] PyObject_IsInstance is dangerous (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 18 14:14:24 CEST 2015


Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

PyObjectIsInstance is not safe when used to check if the object is an instance of specified builtin type.

The class attribute can be modified and PyObjectIsInstance() can return true if the object has not layout compatible with specified structure.

Code that requires a particular C layout should be using PyObject_TypeCheck, not PyObject_IsInstance.

-- Greg



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