[Python-Dev] ast-objects branch created

[Delaney, Timothy (Tim)]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> if you check my original post, you'll find code for a new list helper
> function, which would solve this in a convenient way.

Yep - I thought I'd seen something like this, but couldn't find it
(eventually found it by searching for Lundh ;). That's exactly what I
was thinking of. However, I'm also thinking that it's worthwhile to have
aliases that state that this is being done for memory management - hence
the idea of _PyArena_ADD (and probably _PyArena_REMOVE, which would have
to do an identity removal).

I'm taking some leave over Christmas/New Year, so I might have a look at
some other parts of the python codebase and see if there are other areas
that might benefit from using lists as arenas like this.

Tim Delaney