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  r72461 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-07 22:06:00 -0500 (Thu, 07 May 2009) | 1 line

  add _PyObject_LookupSpecial to handle fetching special method lookup
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diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index 57b4906..d8fc91e 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -474,12 +474,6 @@
 	PyObject *result, *func;
 	static PyObject *bytesstring = NULL;
 
-	if (bytesstring == NULL) {
-		bytesstring = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__bytes__");
-		if (bytesstring == NULL)
-			return NULL;
-	}
-
 	if (v == NULL)
 		return PyBytes_FromString("<NULL>");
 
@@ -488,10 +482,10 @@
 		return v;
 	}
 
-        /* Doesn't create a reference */
-	func = _PyType_Lookup(Py_TYPE(v), bytesstring);
+	func = _PyObject_LookupSpecial(v, "__bytes__", &bytesstring);
 	if (func != NULL) {
             result = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(func, v, NULL);
+	    Py_DECREF(func);
             if (result == NULL)
 		return NULL;
             if (!PyBytes_Check(result)) {
@@ -503,7 +497,6 @@
             }
             return result;
 	}
-        PyErr_Clear();
 	return PyBytes_FromObject(v);
 }
 
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 06d600e..7e81ce6 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -1125,6 +1125,8 @@
      when the _PyType_Lookup() call fails;
 
    - lookup_method() always raises an exception upon errors.
+
+   - _PyObject_LookupSpecial() exported for the benefit of other places.
 */
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -1157,6 +1159,12 @@
 	return res;
 }
 
+PyObject *
+_PyObject_LookupSpecial(PyObject *self, char *attrstr, PyObject **attrobj)
+{
+	return lookup_maybe(self, attrstr, attrobj);
+}
+
 /* A variation of PyObject_CallMethod that uses lookup_method()
    instead of PyObject_GetAttrString().	 This uses the same convention
    as lookup_method to cache the interned name string object. */