[issue9828] Repeated Py_Initialize and Py_Finalize usage brings fatal error?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

It should be noted that repeatedly calling Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize leaks a lot (even without the "import _ctypes"):

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And it also translates into memory consumption...

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