Carl Banks <pavlovevidence <at> gmail.com> writes: > However, Python apparently does leak a reference if passed a Unicode > object; PyArg_ParseTuple automatically creates an encoded string but > never decrefs it. (That might be necessary evil to preserve > compatibility, though. PyString_AS_STRING does it too.)
Unicode objects cache a copy of themselves as default encoded strings. It is deallocated when the unicode object its self is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
