[Python.NET] PyTuple IDisposable implementation

Steven Burns royalstream at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 31 16:30:35 EDT 2016


That makes perfect sense.
I'm creating many PyTuple instances on the fly so I needed to make sure 
calling Dispose() was enough.

Thanks

------ Original Message ------
From: "Tony Roberts" <tony at pyxll.com>
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Sent: 3/31/2016 8:47:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Python.NET] PyTuple IDisposable implementation

>When the tuple is destroyed each of the members will have their 
>reference count decremented. The tuple 'steals' the references of the 
>members when it's constructed, hence why there's the call to Incref and 
>no need for a corresponding decref. This happens in the Python C API 
>and so there's no need to do anything in the C# code when the tuple is 
>destroyed.
>
>On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:38 PM Steven Burns <royalstream at hotmail.com> 
>wrote:
>>I'm creating PyTuple instances using the constructor.
>>
>>I noticed the constructor calls Runtime.Incref for each of the tuple 
>>elements.
>>
>>But PyTuple doesn't override PyObject's implementation of IDisposable.
>>
>>It's not clear to me when this references will be cleared.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Steven
>>
>>
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