[Python-Dev] Borrowed and Stolen References in API

[Georg Brandl]

On 06.05.2011 10:18, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
> Le vendredi 6 mai 2011, Mark Shannon <marks at dcs.gla.ac.uk> a écrit :
>> What about #defining PY_STOLEN in some header?
>>
>> Then any stolen parameter can be prefixed with PY_STOLEN in signature.
>>
>> For return values, similarly #define PY_BORROWED.
> 
> Header files are harder to parse, and I don't see how it would apply to macros.
> What about additional tags in the .rst files?

Possible, of course, and even easier to implement.

Georg