[Python-Dev] Need traceback expert to review patch 954922 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 18 22:38:02 EDT 2004


Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>:

I bet the goal is that if Python is embedded, and initialized and shut down repeatedly, it should not leak memory.

I think that's going to be impossible to achieve as long as there is no protocol for shutting down extension modules, which may be holding references to things in C globals.

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