[Python-Dev] Problems with the Python Memory Manager

[Fredrik Lundh]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

> Bingo.  Yes, definitely allocating new _types_ (an awful lot of them...)
> --- that's what the "array scalars" are: new types created in C.

are you allocating PyTypeObject structures dynamically?

why are you creating an awful lot of new type objects to represent the
contents of a homogenous array?

> If they don't get properly collected then that would definitely have
> created the problem.  It would seem this should be advertised when
> telling people to use PyObject_New for allocating new memory for
> an object.

PyObject_New creates a new instance of a given type; it doesn't, in itself,
create a new type.

at this point, your description doesn't make much sense.  more information
is definitely needed...

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