seg. fault with Py_BuildValue?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Christian Meesters wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm having trouble with Py_BuildValue. I was able to pinpoint the
> following statement as the one causing a seg. fault with my script:
> 
> static PyObject * funcname(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
> ...
>   return Py_BuildValue("(OO)", x, y);
> }
> where x & y are both of type PyObject.
> 
> Any suggestions here? Do I need to handle the output of Py_BuildValue
> somehow before returning? How? Need to decref x & y before returning?

Just a guess - but according to the docs of Py_BuildValue it will return a
tuple already when given a format string of several format units.

What happens if you get rid of the ()?

Diez