[Python-Dev] Borrowed and Stolen References in API

[Greg Ewing]

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