Re: [capi-sig] Does Py_False or Py_True need de-referencing if used in a PyObject_Compare?

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Robert Steckroth robertsteckroth@gmail.com wrote:

Does the below statement have a memory leak?

if ( PyObject_Compare(update_var, Py_False)

Do I need to assign the Py_False first and DECREF it, or is the above snippet ok alone.

The python api docs will often say if they use/steal references. If your not sure you could just printf("%d\n", Py_REFCNT(Py_False)); before and after calling.