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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 18 14:41:48 CEST 2015


Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

May be modify PyObjectIsInstance so that it will never return true if layouts are not compatible?

That wouldn't be a good idea, since PyObject_IsInstance is meant to reflect the behaviour of python's isinstance() function, which doesn't care about C layouts.

-- Greg



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