[Python-Dev] Py_Finalize does not release all memory, not even closely

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Apr 11 20:20:29 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm afraid it was wishful thinking on my part.
> 
> The best we can try to hope for is to ensure that repeatedly calling
> Py_Initialize and Py_Finalize doesn't leak too much memory.

Ok. Unless somebody still claims to the contrary, I will go ahead
and weaken the promises in the documentation. Then it's not a bug
anymore that it leaks :-)

Regards,
Martin


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