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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: python bindings memory management
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Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> when writing this small script [0][1] using the notmuch python bindings I 
> had to manually delete the python objects in the right order. Otherwise 
> it segfaults when exiting, presumably because memory dependencies / 
> cleanup isn't done correctly when the Python GC gets going. Essentially 
> I have to delete the objects in the order of their dependency:

Assuming this is python > 3.3, it sounds related to

     id:5694CA65.8010400@fastmail.net

See in particular

    id:20160112185107.GA21580@odin.tremily.us