On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:24:21 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the "track memory usage" use case, it is important to track memory > allocated in external libraries to have accurate reports, because > these allocations may be huge. [...] > Not in main(). The Python expat and zlib modules call directly > malloc() and may allocate large blocks. External libraries like > OpenSSL or bz2 may also allocate large blocks.
Fair enough. > >> Drawback: the caller has to check if the result is 0, or handle the > >> error. > > > > Or you can just call Py_FatalError() if the domain is invalid. > > I don't like Py_FatalError(), especially when Python is embedded. It's > safer to return -1 and expect the caller to check for the error case. I don't think you need to check for errors. The domain is always one of the existing constants, i.e. it should be hard-coded in the source, not computed. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
