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diff --git a/Doc/api/intro.tex b/Doc/api/intro.tex index 608d562..96f18ec 100644 --- a/Doc/api/intro.tex +++ b/Doc/api/intro.tex @@ -569,8 +569,11 @@ 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. |