[Python-Dev] Re: tp_clear return value

[Greg Ewing]

> it would be quite surprising to see a tp_traverse function play with
> anything's refcount (their purpose is to pass an object's PyObject*
> pointers on to the callback argument, and that's all

A thought -- maybe tp_visit and tp_clear could be unified
by having a tp_visit that passed pointers to pointers to
objects to the callback?

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