[Python-checkins] r45344 - python/trunk/Doc/api/intro.tex
martin.v.loewis
python-checkins at python.org
Thu Apr 13 09:28:29 CEST 2006
Author: martin.v.loewis
Date: Thu Apr 13 09:28:29 2006
New Revision: 45344
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/api/intro.tex
Log:
Stop claiming that Py_Finalize releases all memory.
Fixes part of #1445210.
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/api/intro.tex
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/api/intro.tex (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/api/intro.tex Thu Apr 13 09:28:29 2006
@@ -572,8 +572,11 @@
Sometimes, it is desirable to ``uninitialize'' Python. For instance,
the application may want to start over (make another call to
\cfunction{Py_Initialize()}) or the application is simply done with its
-use of Python and wants to free all memory allocated by Python. This
+use of Python and wants to free memory allocated by Python. This
can be accomplished by calling \cfunction{Py_Finalize()}. The function
\cfunction{Py_IsInitialized()}\ttindex{Py_IsInitialized()} returns
true if Python is currently in the initialized state. More
information about these functions is given in a later chapter.
+Notice that \cfunction{Py_Finalize} does \emph{not} free all memory
+allocated by the Python interpreter, e.g. memory allocated by extension
+modules currently cannot be released.
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