interpreter Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize mem leak?

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Roman Suzi wrote:

> In pure curiosity I tried to compile loop.c from Demo/embed
> and started it with 'print 2+2'. It seems, that both 2.3 and 2.4
> pythons have memory leaks in Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize calls.
> (That is, interpreter doesn't clean up well after itself).

What's your evidence for this (i.e. what are the symptoms)?

If you have a repeatable test case, please raise a bug report on
SourceForge.

Tim Delaney