[Python-Dev] are CObjects inherently unsafe?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> And the docs should be updated to explain the description better
> (currently at one point the description is called "extra callback data
> for the destructor function" which seems a rather odd feature).

Indeed! That comment completely misled me about the purpose of
the "desc". Ironically, if that sentence simply hadn't been 
there, I probably would have correctly guessed what the desc
was meant for.

Another API suggestion: a function such as

  void* PyCObject_AsVoidPtrWithDesc(PyObject* self, void *expected_desc)

which checks the desc and raises an exception if it doesn't
match the expected value.

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