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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2006-04-13 07:28:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2006-04-13 07:28:29 (GMT) |
| commit | bb3001188093076dedb370b7ad6d82c4360f5fc8 (patch) | |
| tree | 70f5a9219375fc3d5d131342b65f7c7cf48b815b /Doc/api | |
| parent | f15da6995b974238bc4af10bc260e4c209c13a1f (diff) | |
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Stop claiming that Py_Finalize releases all memory.
Fixes part of #1445210.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/api/intro.tex b/Doc/api/intro.tex index d84b654..739f0c2 100644 --- a/Doc/api/intro.tex +++ b/Doc/api/intro.tex @@ -572,8 +572,11 @@ defined in \file{Modules/getpath.c}). Sometimes, it is desirable to ``uninitialize'' Python. For instance, the application may want to start over (make another call to \cfunction{Py_Initialize()}) or the application is simply done with its -use of Python and wants to free all memory allocated by Python. This +use of Python and wants to free memory allocated by Python. This can be accomplished by calling \cfunction{Py_Finalize()}. The function \cfunction{Py_IsInitialized()}\ttindex{Py_IsInitialized()} returns true if Python is currently in the initialized state. More information about these functions is given in a later chapter. +Notice that \cfunction{Py_Finalize} does \emph{not} free all memory +allocated by the Python interpreter, e.g. memory allocated by extension +modules currently cannot be released. |