On 10/21/20 4:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
(apart from small fixes relating to borrowed references, and
that's mostly to make PyPy's life easier).
Speaking as the Gilectomy guy: borrowed references are evil. The
definition of the valid lifetime of a borrowed reference doesn't exist,
because they are a hack (baked into the API!) that we mostly "get away
with" just because of the GIL. If I still had wishes left on my
monkey's paw I'd wish them away*.
//arry/
* Unfortunately, I used my last wish back in February, wishing I could
spend more time at home.
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