[Python-Dev] segmentation fault in Python 2.5b3 (trunk:51066)

[Michael Hudson]

Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> writes:

> Does Coverity recognise objects on Python's internal pools as deallocated? 

Coverity doesn't work on that level; it analyzes source code, and
knows about Python's INCREFs and DECREFs.

> The moral is to regard the reference counting rules as law: no matter how 
> sure you are that you can cheat, don't or you'll regret it.

This is the truth.

Cheers,
mwh

-- 
 As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make
 a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances.  In
 Python, you have to be an idiot not  to be able to do it, because you
 just write it down.             -- Peter Norvig, comp.lang.functional