Type checking inside a C extension... doesn't throw exception on failure
Jon Perez
jbperez808 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 6 23:56:18 EDT 2004
Jon Perez wrote:
> Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
>
>> First rule of using the Python C API: _always_ check the return value of
>> API functions.
>
> This only applies to API functions which return PyObject*, right?
...because it is not hard to find instances in the source code for
the modules that come with Python where, for example, PyTuple_SetItem()'s
return value is not checked for.
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