[Python-Dev] Problems with the Python Memory Manager

Thu Nov 17 07:06:02 CET 2005

On 17-nov-2005, at 3:15, Travis Oliphant wrote:
> Jim Jewett wrote:
>>>>>> (2) Is he allocating new _types_, which I think don't get properly
>>>> collected.
>>>>>> Bingo. Yes, definitely allocating new _types_ (an awful lot of 
> them...)
> --- that's what the "array scalars" are: new types created in C.

Do you really mean that someArray[1] will create a new type to represent
the second element of someArray? I would guess that you create an
instance of a type defined in your extension.
Ronald