Another question about extending Python

[Martin v. Löwis]

> 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.

I'm not entirely sure what a malloc/free callback is, however, most
objects in Python are deallocated by invoking their tp_dealloc routine,
which then invokes free.

Regards,
Martin