[issue9403] cElementTree: replace PyObject_DEL() by Py_DECREF() to fix a crash in pydebug mode

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 13 03:34:40 CEST 2010


STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> Are there any tests that could be easily added to the test suite?

I don't know an easy way to simulate malloc failure. There is the http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc/ library but I never used it, and I don't think that it's widely used. You can just test that the patch doesn't make things worse :-)

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