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| author | Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> | 2021-08-04 18:01:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-08-04 18:01:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 10faada709561663d6b1f623d308ff45e3808cca (patch) | |
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| parent | 3d2b4c6f18d7e644e5850d2af74ac5dc530eb24c (diff) | |
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Note that tp_clear and m_clear are not always called (GH-27581)
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/module.rst b/Doc/c-api/module.rst index a2541af..94c8d9f 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/module.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/module.rst @@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ or request "multi-phase initialization" by returning the definition struct itsel than 0 and the module state (as returned by :c:func:`PyModule_GetState`) is ``NULL``. + Like :c:member:`PyTypeObject.tp_clear`, this function is not *always* + called before a module is deallocated. For example, when reference + counting is enough to determine that an object is no longer used, + the cyclic garbage collector is not involved and + :c:member:`~PyModuleDef.m_free` is called directly. + .. versionchanged:: 3.9 No longer called before the module state is allocated. |