[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src PLAN.txt,1.1.2.3,1.1.2.4

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum@users.sourceforge.net
Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:06:13 -0700


Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv15167

Modified Files:
      Tag: descr-branch
	PLAN.txt 
Log Message:
Add a note to the dealloc task.


Index: PLAN.txt
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Attic/PLAN.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.1.2.3
retrieving revision 1.1.2.4
diff -C2 -r1.1.2.3 -r1.1.2.4
*** PLAN.txt	2001/06/30 12:25:24	1.1.2.3
--- PLAN.txt	2001/07/01 19:06:11	1.1.2.4
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*** 16,20 ****
  base types until it finds a type whose tp_dealloc is not
  subtype_dealloc.  I think this is not safe.  I think the alloc/dealloc
! policy needs to be rethought.
  
  Clean up isinstance(), issubclass() and their C equivalents.  There
--- 16,24 ----
  base types until it finds a type whose tp_dealloc is not
  subtype_dealloc.  I think this is not safe.  I think the alloc/dealloc
! policy needs to be rethought.  *** There's an idea here that I haven't
! worked out yet: just as object creation now has separate API's tp_new,
! tp_alloc, and tp_init, destruction has tp_dealloc and tp_free.  (Maybe
! tp_fini should be added to correspond to tp_init?)  Something
! could/should be done with this. ***
  
  Clean up isinstance(), issubclass() and their C equivalents.  There