[Numpy-discussion] C-API: deallocating a partially filled object array

[Robert Kern]

Martin Wiechert wrote:
> Hi gurus,
> 
> is it (in C) safe to deallocate an array of type NPY_OBJECT, which carries 
> NULL pointers?

Possibly, I'm not sure without doing some more code-diving. However, I strongly
doubt that many other operations are safe. Depending on how you got such an
array and how long it's expected to live, you might want to fix the NULL pointers.

-- 
Robert Kern

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