On Feb 24, 8:46 am, "aken8...@yahoo.com" <aken8...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you very much, it worked. > I thought the PyDict_SetItem should assume ownership > of the passed object and decrease it's reference count (I do not know > why). > > Does this also go for the Lists ? Should anything inserted into list > also > be DECRED-ed ?
The Python C API documentation has this information--if a function is documented as borrowing a reference, then it behaves as you were expecting (it doesn't increase the reference count). If it's documented as creating a new reference, it does increase the reference count. I don't know if there's a simple rule to know of a function borrows or creates a new reference; I've never noticed one. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
