[Python-Dev] survey of extension module memory managment

[Tim Peters]

[Neil Schemenauer]
> I randomly grabbed a bunch of extension modules by searching the
> python.org topic guides and by using Parnassus.  I looked at 20
> different packages.  12 of them implemented an extension type.  12 of
> them use the memory management API incorrectly and will break if
> pymalloc is enabled.   That's worse than I thought.

Yet believable, given how many reports of "pymalloc failures" we've seen
over the last couple years.

I choose to look at the bright side:  all the modules you listed used *some*
way to spell "get memory" when getting memory, and some way to spell
"release memory" when releasing memory.  We can deduce from that exactly how
much users can keep straight <wink>.