Progress on the Gilectomy

[Skip Montanaro]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> Programming at the C level is not working in Python, and many Python
> niceties simply don't exist there.


True, but a lot of functionality available to Python programmers exists at
the extension module level, whether delivered as part of the core
distribution or from third-party sources. (The core CPython test suite
spends a fair amount of effort on leak detection, one side effect of
incorrect reference counting.) While programming in Python you don't need
to worry about reference counting errors, when they slip through from the C
level, they affect you.

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