How properly manage memory of this PyObject* array?? (C extension)

[seberino at spawar.navy.mil]

> It's quite simple, really: You malloc it, you free it.

John - I hope you don't mind that I really want to make sure I
understand your
good wisdom in this area by asking for clarification....

ASSUMPTIONS:

1.  As long as we properly handle the reference counting of PyObjects
then
     memory management is taken care of for us.  (i.e. You don't ever
     use the 'free' command explicitly on a PyObject* but let Python
garbage collector
     do the final freeing.)

2.  All malloc'd stuff in C must be freed with free command.  (Python
garbage
    collector is limited to PyObjects.  It won't free non-Python stuff
for us
    like int arrays, char* strings, etc.)

....

Now it would appear that if you **malloc an array of PyObjects**
(call it FOO[]) then you have an ambiguity....

The PyObject elements will be freed *for us* eventually by garbage
collector.
Hence, we can't ever do 'free(FOO); ' because we don't know when
garbage collector will free FOO[0], FOO[1], FOO[2], etc.

Chris