[Cython] __dealloc__ called even if __cinit__ failed

[Robert Bradshaw]

If cinit fails half way through you still may need to do some cleanup,
hence dealloc which must be aware of this.
On Oct 5, 2015 7:12 AM, "Jeroen Demeyer" <jdemeyer at cage.ugent.be> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm not entirely sure if this is a feature or bug...
>
> I noticed that, if a __cinit__ call raises an exception on an object, that
> __dealloc__ on that same object is still called.
>
> The problem is that __cinit__ is supposed to set up the C-level attributes
> for that object. If this somehow fails, then the object isn't in a
> consistent state yet, so it makes no sense to call __dealloc__ on it.
>
> Do you consider this a Cython bug or should I manually protect my code
> against this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jeroen.
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