[pypy-commit] cffi default: Add warnings about keeping alive the library object.

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Thu Mar 7 17:51:37 CET 2013


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r1186:c28026358db5
Date: 2013-03-07 17:51 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/c28026358db5/

Log:	Add warnings about keeping alive the library object.

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -459,6 +459,10 @@
 For the optional ``flags`` argument, see ``man dlopen`` (ignored on
 Windows).  It defaults to ``ffi.RTLD_NOW``.
 
+This function returns a "library" object that gets closed when it goes
+out of scope.  Make sure you keep the library object around as long as
+needed.
+
 .. _below:
 
 
@@ -622,6 +626,10 @@
    check.  Be sure to have other means of clearing the ``tmpdir``
    whenever you change your sources.
 
+This function returns a "library" object that gets closed when it goes
+out of scope.  Make sure you keep the library object around as long as
+needed.
+
 
 Working with pointers, structures and arrays
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