Fredrik Lundh wrote: > what magic do you expect the "manual garbage collection" to do here that > the DECREF doesn't already do?
The DECREF decrements the reference count, but does not immediately prompt garbage collection when the reference count drops to zero; that garbage collection does not appear to occur until I return from the particular C function I am in the middle of executing. Ideally, I want to explicitly prompt garbage collection in the middle of a C function, without first returning to the larger Python interpreter. --Kyle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list