C Wrapper Function, crashing Python?

[Java and Swing]

thanks for the tip, however even when I do not free aString or bString,
i'm still crashing at the malloc in the c function, not the wrapper.


Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> "Java and Swing" <codecraig at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > static PyObject *wrap_doStuff(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
> [...]
> >       char *aString = 0;
> >   	char *bString = 0;
> [...]
> >   	int ok = PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "sss", &in, &aString, &bString);
> [...]
> > 	free(aString);
> >  	free(bString);
>
> aString and bString are pointers to memory managed by the strings in
> your args tuple.  You must not free them!  The memory is automatically
> managed by Python.
>
>    Bernhard
>
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