On 1/10/07, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Charles R Harris wrote: > Is there a reason that the pointer PyArray_API remains valid if the > imported numpy module is garbage collected? Or is the imported module > persistent even though the returned object goes away? I assume that > python did a dlopen somewhere. There is no provision in Python for safely unloading a C extension module, so we simply presume that sys.modules always holds a reference to the imported module and doesn't let it get garbage collected. People who futz with that get the segfaults they deserve. ;-)
Ah, so that's why reload fails for C extension modules. Can't let the links change either. Chuck
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