[issue3139] bytearrays are not thread safe

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Selon "Martin v. Löwis" <report at bugs.python.org>:
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> As for making Py_buffer own a reference to the object: what should be
> the semantics for PyObject_ReleaseBuffer? I see the following options:
> - Drop PyObject_ReleaseBuffer
> - make it DECREF the embedded object, whether or not it is the same as
> the object being passed in
> - leave it as-is, and require the caller to DECREF.

I don't know, is there supposed to be a semantic difference between
PyObject_ReleaseBuffer and PyBuffer_Release? If not, I'd say drop it.

Also, I think it's fine if you commit your fix without adding an incref/decref.
In the absence of the designer of the buffer API it is difficult to know what
subtleties should be taken into account when trying to change that API...

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