CPython Class variable exposed to Python is altered.

[Vincent Vande Vyvre]

Le 12/04/17 à 10:51, Peter Otten a écrit :
> Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
>
>> Le 12/04/17 à 08:57, Vincent Vande Vyvre a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Learning CPython, I've made this simple exercice, a module test which
>>> contains an object Test.
>>>
>>> The object Test has an attribute name, fixed at instanciation.
>>>
>>> So, I try my code with a script:
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> from test import Test
>>>
>>> for n in ("The name", "Foo", "Spam"):
>>>      t = Test(n)
>>>      print("%s --> %s" %(n, t.name))
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> And the return:
>>>
>>> Uhe name --> Uhe name
>>> Goo --> Goo
>>> Tpam --> Tpam
>>>
>>> As we can see, the first letter is changed with the next letter in
>>> alphabetical order, but not only for the attribute name, also for the
>>> reference n.
>>       if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "s|", kwlist, &name))
>>           return -1;
>>
>>       if (name) {
>>           tmp = self->name;
>>           Py_INCREF(name);
> While I don't know how to do this properly you seem to be applying
> Py_INCREF() to a C string rather than a Python string object. C being C you
> can cast anything to anything else...
>
> Aren't there any warnings at compile time?
>

No, no warning.


For the truth, this code is copy-pasted from the doc.

https://docs.python.org/3.5//extending/newtypes.html#adding-data-and-methods-to-the-basic-example


Vincent