[Python-Dev] Memory Management

[Asbahr, Jason]

Greetings!

We're working on integrating our own memory manager into our project
and the current challenge is figuring out how to make it play nice
with Python (and SWIG).  The approach we're currently taking is to
patch 1.5.2 and augment the PyMem* macros to call external memory
allocation functions that we provide.  The idea is to easily allow 
the addition of third party memory management facilities to Python.
Assuming 1) we get it working :-), and 2) we sync to the latest Python
CVS and patch that, would this be a useful patch to give back to the 
community?  Has anyone run up against this before?

Thanks,

Jason Asbahr
Origin Systems, Inc.
jasbahr@origin.ea.com