[Python-Dev] Need traceback expert to review patch 954922
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 18 22:38:02 EDT 2004
Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>:
> I bet the goal is that if Python is embedded, and initialized and shut down
> repeatedly, it should not leak memory.
I think that's going to be impossible to achieve as long
as there is no protocol for shutting down extension modules,
which may be holding references to things in C globals.
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