[issue17978] Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multiple times

STINNER Victor added the comment: Program described in msg189250 does not crash on the master branch of Python. The PEP 587 deeply reworked Python initialization code. There is now a preinitialization phase, for example. Moreover, Programs/_testembed.c has a test calling Py_Initialize()+Py_

[issue17978] Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multiple times

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 15.05.2013 01:28, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > > Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > > The official way to build without unicode is > ./configure --enable-unicode=no > But see issue17979. The official way to build without Unicode is: ./configu

[issue17978] Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multiple times

Romulo A. Ceccon added the comment: I've made some further investigation on this issue. Here's the output and the stack trace using --with-pydebug (and the attached patch applied): run no. 0 [8766 refs] free_list[0]->ob_refcnt before XDECREF: 2 run no. 1 [8844 refs] free

[issue17978] Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multiple times

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: The official way to build without unicode is ./configure --enable-unicode=no But see issue17979. -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17978] Python crashes if Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize are called multiple times

New submission from Romulo A. Ceccon: I have patched (see attachment) Python 2.7.4 (as available for download at python.org/download) to disable initialization of Unicode (an embeded system requirement) and now it segfaults with the following program: #include int main(int argc,