Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > I guess the phrase "you must not provide storage" is a failed > translation and not meant like that. It should say "you are not required > to provide storage". It's confusing to have such strong wording without > reason.
It's stronger than "you are not required to": if you do provide storage (by allocating memory), then this memory most likely will be garbage, and you must not attempt to free it afterwards (as doing so would cause a crash). ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4746> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
