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Fix in trailing comment: PyDict_SetItemString() does *not* consume a reference 

count, PyList_SetItem() does.  Very confusing!
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Fred Drake 1997-09-05 17:53:53 +00:00
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@ -461,9 +461,8 @@ quickly. Thus, to retrieve an object and store it again, the caller
must call Py_INCREF() explicitly.
NOTE: functions that 'consume' a reference count like
PyDict_SetItemString() even
consume the reference if the object wasn't stored, to simplify error
handling.
PyList_SetItemString() even consume the reference if the object wasn't
stored, to simplify error handling.
It seems attractive to make other functions that take an object as
argument consume a reference count; however this may quickly get