On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:35 -0700, 7stud wrote:
> 2) When returning None, why use the idiom:
>
> Py_INCREF(Py_None);
> return Py_None;
>
> instead of:
>
> return Py_BuildValue("");
>
As Gabriel said, the preferred idiom is faster and clearer. Sufficiently
recent Pythons define the macro Py_RETURN_NONE for the preferred idiom.
-Carsten