Embedding Python - Freeing Python Objects Not Using Py_DECREF

[Thomas Heller]

yuri.feldman at gmail.com schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm embedding Python interpreter in a Win32 console application. I use
> C++.
> 
> I would like to use the WinAPI LoadLibrary function to load the python
> dll at runtime (followed by GetProcAddress calls), so that I have to
> make no assumptions about the location of the dll.
> 
> However I can't use the macro Py_DECREF if I load the dll this way.
> 
> Is there a way to properly free python objects (specifically -
> dictionaries created by PyDict_New() and the object returned by
> PyRun_String()) not using Py_DECREF?
> 
> Alternatively, is there a way to include the python header - to make
> the macro Py_DECREF available, but to be able to locate the python dll
> whenever python is installed?
> 
> (The problem is that python may be installed anywhere, and the python
> dll does not always appear in system folders - sometimes it is in the
> python installation directory, thus it is unclear which targets to
> specify to the linker to search for the dll).

Use the Py_DecRef function, which was added for exactly this purpose.

Thomas