[Python-Dev] RE: test_sort.py failure

[Michael Hudson]

Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:

> The invariants of the ob_xxx list members should be clearly
> specified somewhere and we should stick to them.

Yes.

> E.g. it is unclear to me why we allow list_ass_slice() to reset
> ob_item to NULL and ob_size to 0 without resetting ob_allocated to 0
> -- I see why it doesn't crash in a subsequent list_resize(), but it
> looks messy.

Well, "a mistake" would be my guess <wink>.

Cheers,
mwh

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