[Numpy-discussion] PyArray_ContiguousFromObject & PyDECREF

[Konrad Hinsen]

On Monday 01 December 2003 07:15, Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote:

> In Chapter 12 ("Writing a C extension") in the Numerical Python manual, in
> the first example PyArray_ContiguousFromObject is used together with
> PyDECREF, while in the last example PyArray_ContiguousFromObject is used
> but the arrays are not PyDECREF'ed before the function returns. From
> Chapter 13 ("C API Reference") it seems that a PyDECREF is needed in both
> cases. Or am I missing something here? Is PyDECREF not needed for some
> reason in the last example?

It should be there, the second example as presented has a memory leak.

Konrad.
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