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<TITLE>RE: [Pyrex] Just some thoughts</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> 2) I think that Pyrex should offer some low-level memory managment routines. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I think of sizeof operator, as well as the C standard *alloc and free </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> functions. It would be also nice to have something like the g_new macro </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> known from the GLib library.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> [snip]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If you read the Pyrex doco you will find that it is preferred to use the python</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>memory management routines when allocating memory:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>ctypedef long size_t</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>cdef extern from "Python.h":</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> void* PyMem_Malloc(size_t n)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> void PyMem_Free(void* mem)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>They also have new and delete analogues if that is preferred. The doco for these</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>functions is in the Python documentation in the Python/C API section.</FONT>
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