[New-bugs-announce] [issue24274] erroneous comments in dictobject.c

[Jim Jewett]

New submission from Jim Jewett:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2df7c958974e/Objects/dictobject.c#l451

The comments near lookdict suggest that specialized versions such as lookdict_unicode and lookdict_unicode_nodummy cannot return NULL, as that would indicate an Exception was raised during comparison.

They can return NULL, because if the *search* key is not unicode, they replace themselves with the generic lookdict and then return its result, which may be NULL.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 243968
nosy: Jim.Jewett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: erroneous comments in dictobject.c
type: enhancement

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