2.3.2 Memory Leaks ?

[Michael Hudson]

genjox at yahoo.com (Robert) writes:

> Hi, 
> I am building with VS 6.0 under WinXP, and building with the default
> python configuration & settings. I build a test python app with just
> the following code:
> 
> 
> /* testing for memory leaks */
> long tmp_flag = _CrtSetDbgFlag( _CRTDBG_REPORT_FLAG );
> tmp_flag |= _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF;
> _CrtSetDbgFlag( tmp_flag );
> 
> Py_Initialize();
> Py_Finalize();
> 
> 
> For some reason I am seeing a *bunch* of memory leaks. Does anyone
> know what the problem could be?

There are various objects (interned strings being an example) that do
not get deallocated before shutdown, but calling them "leaks" seems a
bit of a stretch.  Are they causing you problems?

Cheers,
mwh

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