[Python-Dev] Activating pymalloc (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:37:40 +0100

Michael Hudson wrote:

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes: > [Neal] > > A lot of extensions will break. The example code in xxmodule.c was > > "wrong" for years. > > Ditto Zope (as Guido said), ditto Marc-Andre's extensions, ditto > NumPy (IIRC), yadda yadda yadda. I don't know whether MarkH has > tried the massive Win32 extensions with pymalloc yet. I think one of the reasons lots of modules break is that back in the 1.5.2 days, PyObjectDel didn't exist, and you were expected to use PyMemDel. This now breaks. Could be misremembering.

That's correct: PyObject_DEL/Del were introduced in Python 1.6.

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