[C++-sig] differencein memory management

[David Abrahams]

on Thu Jul 17 2008, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> David Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> > class_<A,shared_ptr<A>,...
>> > class_<A,intrusive_ptr<A>,...
>> > class_<A,A*,...
>> 
>> The first two are identical.  The third one leaks a C++ A when the
>> corresponding Python A loses its last reference.
>
> I guess I need the later - I want to manage C++ object lifecycle myself. But in
> this case I can't get from A* back to the python object, right?

Not unless you add some machinery to do so explicitly.

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