[issue10181] Problems with Py_buffer management in memoryobject.c (and elsewhere?)

[Pauli Virtanen]

Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> added the comment:

Lenard Lindstrom writes:
> Using Python reference counting and the garbage collector to control 
> when PyBuffer_Release is called has problems.

That's not what's being suggested. The refcounting discussed here is an implementation detail internal to memoryview, and does not affect the possibility to implement `release()` and context management reliably.

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