On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > The ref count is incremented because the caller will decrement it when > it's done with the reference.
That makes sense. To be generic, the caller won't check what the returned result is. It just takes it as a normal PyObject. Traditionally, for functions like above, the reference is assumed to be transferred to the caller. Regards. -- 吾輩は猫である。ホームーページはhttp://introo.me。 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list