Re: [Python-Dev] PyMem_Malloc() vs PyObject_Malloc()

2009-09-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: > My feeling Is that these two APIs shouldn’t be interchangeable. > Especially since you can’t hand a PyObject_Malloc’d object to > PyMem_Free() so the inverse shouldn’t be expected to work. I thought this had officially been deemed illegal for a while, and Google fo

Re: [Python-Dev] PyMem_Malloc() vs PyObject_Malloc()

2009-09-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: > > I noticed something (in 2.5) yesterday, which may be a feature, but is more > likely a bug. > In tokenizer.c, tok->encoding is allocated using PyMem_MALLOC(). > However, this then gets handed to a node->r_str in parsetok.c, and then > released in node.c using Py