Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Memory management bug using .new()

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 18 Jun, 2009, at 22:47, Orestis Markou wrote:

> Hi Ronald,
>
> does that stand for other arbitrary class methods, like CALayer.layer 
> () as well? Is there a way to inform PyObjC of constructor class  
> methods? Or should we change our code to use alloc().init() instead?

No. The only class methods that behave like  alloc are alloc itself  
and anything that starts with 'new'. Regular class methods return  
autoreleased objects.

The behaviour of method names that start with 'new' is newish, the  
last time I check (which was a couple of years ago), only +alloc  
returned a retained value.

Ronald