Michael Hudson
On Friday, Apr 18, 2003, at 01:22 Europe/London, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Note that this is quite some time ago :-) I've been reading through some messages that have been ticked for rather too long in my python-dev mail folder...
(Looking at PyObject_GenericGetAttr with that in mind, I wonder if there isn't a possible crash there. In the first MRO lookup, looking for descr's, if a non-data-descr is found, it is kept around but not INCREF'd until later, after the instance-dict is searched. Am I wrong in believing the PyDict_GetItem of the instance dict can call Python code ? [..] Fixing this would make the code even hairier though... :-(
Pff, it's not so bad, just a little refcount code jiggling. I'll make a real patch including the above test case soon (once I'm reasonably confident that I'm not leaking references).
http://www.python.org/sf/784825 Cheers, mwh -- ... with these conditions cam the realisation that ... nothing turned a perfectly normal healthy individual into a great political or military leader better than irreversible brain damage. -- The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Episode 11