C-API question: Memory returned by PyString_AsString

[Fredrik Lundh]

Christoph Bennemann wrote:

> functions like PyString_AsString return a pointer to a character
> vector. Is this memory specially allocated when I call this function
> (which implies I have to take care of it in my program) or is this
> merely a pointer to a character vector stored by the Python
> interpreter (implying that I should not free the memory). I assume
> that the later is correct, but would like to have a definitive answer.

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/api/stringObjects.html

    char* PyString_AsString(PyObject *string)

    Returns a null-terminated representation of the contents
    of string. The pointer refers to the internal buffer of string,
    not a copy. The data must not be modified in any way,
    unless the string was just created using
    PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, size).
    It must not be deallocated.

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