Python/C - Memory-Management

[Michael Hudson]

heiko.wolf at dlr.de (Heiko Wolf) writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've got some C-functions that shall be adressed from Python. Thats no
> problem, thanks to SWIG.
> 
> But now there is a problem about the memory management: One of the
> C-functions allocates memory for all the other functions. In C it
> works that way:

[snip]

> If another function calls init_mem, it can use memory until free_mem
> is called... I want to do the same now in Python, but it seems as if
> the static memory isnt kept somewhere? When I try accessing it, I
> get a Segmentation Fault... Any suggestions?

No.  More details?

Cheers,
M.

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