[Numpy-discussion] memory not being freed

[Paul F Dubois]

You just want ret = (PyObject*) arr;

I assume it is PyObject *foo() and you just didn't show it.

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Mathew Yeates
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:19 PM
To: numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] memory not being freed



Hi
I'm having problems with garbage collection
I wrote an extension which creates an array
and returns it

foo() {
arr = (PyArrayObject *) PyArray_FromDims( .....
ret = Py_BuildValue("O", arr);
return ret;
}


but now if I do
while 1:
	a=foo()



memory is never free'd. I've even tried explicitly calling gc.collect
and adding del(a) after a=foo.

Is the problem that Py_BuildValue increases the reference count?

Mathew


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