Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 384 status

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

But isn't exactly that a major problem for Python ?

An extension written for a different MS CRT version would not be able to safely free a buffer allocated by the Python DLL.

Python provides its own set of memory alloc/free functions to deal with this exact problem. For every Python function that allocates something, there's a corresponding function for freeing it, and you do it any other way at your peril. -- Greg