PyRun_String

[Duncan Booth]

Matthias wrote:

> Log("Marker 1");
> Py_XDECREF( PyRun_String( "print 'Hi!'", Py_single_input, Dict, Dict) );
> Log("Marker 2");
> 
> The output looks like
> 
> Marker 1
> Hi!
> Hi!
> Marker 2
> 
> Obviously Hi! is printed twice. 

Py_XDECREF is a C macro. If you check its definition you will see that it 
does indeed evaluate the argument twice. This is a not uncommon problem 
when using macros in C: if in doubt, do not call a macro with anything 
as a parameter which has side effects.

#define Py_XDECREF(op) if ((op) == NULL) ; else Py_DECREF(op)