Bug in Py_Finalize() ?

[Owen F. Ransen]

I tried to report this bug to sorgeforge, signed up, but
it kept on giving me page not found errors after I logged
in....


On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:32:12 GMT, ransen_spam_me_not at nemo.it (Owen F.
Ransen) wrote:

>Trying to find a bug in my C extension I ended up writing
>this loop:
>
>    for (UINT i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++) {
>        Py_Initialize();
>        Py_Finalize() ;
>    }
>
>which crashes Python when i=8 with the message:
>Windows 32, VC++ program.
>
>Fatal Python error: UNREF invalid object
>
>My understanding is that I can use Py_Initialize() and
>Py_Finalize() in pairs to free up memory and to start
>with a clean interpreter each time I need it. And that
>is why I'd like to use Py_Finalise....

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