Hi,
In particular I would like to know more about object life cycles and
memory management:
What kind of object management is the client program responsible for?
Normally none, but you may want to explicitly call .Close() on datasets
to ensure the underlying file is closed at the appropriate moment
Do I need to close objects manually or will the garbage collector take
care of this for me?
for objects other than datasets, GC should work fine
If I open an OGR Dataset twice will I get two separate instances, or
will the reference be shared?
unless you call Dataset.OpenEx() with the GDAL_OF_SHARED flag set,
you'll get separate instances. And be careful if using shared instances:
you cannot use them concurrently from different threads. If you work
with separate instances, (for read-only operations) that should be fine.
Is this mailing list the place where I should be asking these
questions, or it there a better place for it?
No, that's fine
Even
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