[Python-Dev] builtin filter function

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> Ruslan Spivak wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I was reading source code for bltinmodule.c and found probably erroneus
>> stuff in filter function. I'm newbie to python inners and don't know if
>> attached code is worth for a patch submission.
>> 
>> I would appreciate if someone could take a look at it and if it's ok
>> then i'll make submission, otherwise just drop it.
>> TIA
> 
> This is indeed a bug in the function, and could have caused memory leaks
> because of not releasing the preallocated tuple.

Correction: should have been "not releasing the iterator". (However, the bug
would have been triggered only if the tuple could not be allocated, which is
a very unlikely case).

Reinhols

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