[issue8212] A tp_dealloc of a subclassed class cannot resurrect an object
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Apr 16 23:39:27 CEST 2012
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> static int
> _textiowrapper_clear(textio *self)
> {
> if (self->ok && _PyIOBase_finalize((PyObject *) self) < 0)
> return -1;
>
> This shows something scary: During a GC run, it is possible to invoke
> the "close()" method on a textio object. This is dangerous, and
> probably not allowed at all.
How is it scary? This is not worse than invoking a __del__ method.
> Returning -1 from a tp_clear() slot has no particular meaning, and the
> return value appears to be ignored by gcmodule.c
I don't think this is a problem.
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