[Python-Dev] PyWeakref_GetObject() borrows its reference from... whom?

[Larry Hastings]

On 10/10/2016 06:37 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Modified +1: you can't change the behavior of the existing API, but
> you can deprecate it and introduce a better one with a different name.
> We'll have until Python 4.0 to carry through the deprecation anyways.
> And I doubt this is the only C API change needed for happy gil-free
> coding...

First, "deprecate" won't work for these semantics for the Gilectomy 
branch.  I simply cannot safely support the semantics of the existing 
function.  All call sites need to change.

Second, consider that every function that returns a borrowed 
reference--PyDict_GetItem(), PyList_GetItem()--has to change too, to 
return an actual (non-borrowed) reference.  It's going to be a major 
upheaval in the C API.


For now I'm going to leave the names as-is and just change the semantics 
everywhere.  If this approach really works, and if we decide we want to 
merge it back into trunk--and those are both still big if's--we can 
revisit this decision.


I haven't yet ruled out abandoning reference counting completely and 
going to 100% tracing garbage collecting,


//arry/
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