> *WRONG*. The object exists in and of itself. There may be one *or more* > references to it, via pointers, scattered about in memory; they are > *NOT* components of the object. A reference count is maintained inside > the object and manipulated by Py_INCREF etc. The Python garbage > collector knows *nothing* about the memory occupied by those pointers;
John - Thanks again, I think I just learned something that is important. If I free memory associated with pointers to Python objects it will NOT erase the Python objects!!! I can merrily follow your orders to free(my_array); without worrying about nuking the Python objects too early! Thanks for pointing out that reference count is maintained inside the Python object itself. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
