On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM, 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.

It's safe, but note that it is more correct to use PyObject_IsTrue: there are more values that can be considered true or false, besides python's True and False objects.

if (!PyObject_IsTrue(update_var)) { ... }

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