[Pyrex] __del__ not called on some objects

[Greg Ewing]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> I just found a bug during my attempts to debug some memory leaks in the
> dbus bindings.  We use __del__ to unref some C objects when the wrapper
> Pyrex object goes out of scope.  The problem was our Message object was
> not calling __del__ and causing a huge memory leak.

It seems that, contrary to what I said in the Language
Overview, __del__ methods are *not* called on extension
types, only on instances of Python classes (which is
why it worked when you subclassed your class).

As another poster mentioned, you want to use a
__dealloc__ method instead.

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