[Patches] [ python-Patches-837322 ] owning, borrowing, stealing clarification

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Patches item #837322, was opened at 2003-11-06 17:20
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Christos Georgiou (tzot)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: owning, borrowing, stealing clarification

Initial Comment:
in Doc/api/intro.tex, 'Reference count details', merging of 
the second and third sentences with (courtesy of Alex 
Martelli):

Ownership pertains to references, never to objects 
(objects are not owned: they are always 
shared).  "Owning a reference" means being responsible 
for calling Py_DECREF on it when the reference is no 
longer needed.  Ownership can also be transferred, 
meaning that the code that receives ownership of the 
reference then becomes responsible for eventually 
decref'ing it when it's no longer needed.

Please check the final result; this change is IMO 
important since it clarifies what ownership is and implies.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-11-06 22:08

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Thanks for the patch. Applied as intro.tex 1.5 and 1.3.24.2.

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