On lör, 2011-02-12 at 10:07 +0100, Jan Urbański wrote:
> > PLyUnicode_AsString(PyObject *unicode)
> > {
> > PyObject *o = PLyUnicode_Bytes(unicode);
> > char *rv = pstrdup(PyBytes_AsString(o));
> >
> > Py_XDECREF(o);
> > return rv;
> > }
> >
> > PyString_AsString is used all over the place without any pfrees. But
> I
> > have no Idea how that pstrdup() is getting freed if at all.
> >
> > Care to enlighten me ?
>
> Ooops, seems that this hack that's meant to improve compatibility with
> Python3 makes it leak. I wonder is the pstrdup is necessary here,
The result of PyBytes_AsString(o) points into the internal storage of o,
which is released (effectively freed) by the decref on the next line.
So you'd better make a copy if you want to keep using it.