Another question about extending Python

[Erik Max Francis]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> Certainly. You just can't use new if you pass the memory to the Python
> runtime, and the Python runtime frees it (there are very few places
> where the runtime frees memory that you have allocated).

I fully admit to knowing nothing about embedding Python, but I would
hope from a library design point of view that this is accomplished with
malloc/free callbacks in the library.  Even not counting the differences
between C and C++, there's a general precept in library design that
he-who-allocated-it-must-also-free-it.

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