[MERGE] Handle references to line data in _patiencediff_c.c properly

[Lukáš Lalinský]

Dňa Ne, 2008-08-17 o 14:46 -0500, John Arbash Meinel napísal:
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> Lukáš Lalinský wrote:
> > This code is called in bzrlib only with lists or tuples of strings,
> > which works fine, because PySequence_Fast always returns the same object
> > and so the items from PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM will not be deleted until
> > the original sequence is deleted. But if it's called with a sequence
> > than needs to be converted to list (e.g. PyUnicode), the items will be
> > garbage collected in the contructor and still used later in code (which
> > leads to segfaults).
> > 
> > I really don't how to write a failing test for something like this, so
> > there are no tests in the patch. :(
> > 
> > Lukas
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> So... just write a test that we can do PatienceDiff on a Unicode sequence.
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> matcher = PatienceSequenceMatcher(u'Ab\xb5\u1234', u'....')
> matcher.get_matching_blocks()

Ok, I've added a test that always fails with the old code.

Lukas

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