Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes: > On Thursday, Dec 12, 2002, at 20:10 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum > wrote: > > >> If you call YAGNI, it's ok for me, that's why I'm asking. Better save > >> the time in this case... > > > > Well, I have no personal need for it. If you're the only one, that > > sounds like a big YAGNI to me... > > Well... Note that you are currently living dangerously if you're using > an s# format and access that buffer again after a > Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS. If the object passed from Python was a mutable > object with a buffer interface there's a chance that another thread > has moved the underlying data. It can even by the same thread, executing an innocent Py_DECREF() can execute arbitrary Python code. Thinking of it, it's not clear what you are allowed to do after PyArg_Parse() if you still need the 'parsed pointers'. And that's the main point of the PEP: the 'old' buffer interface is nearly useless if you want too be safe. Thomas
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