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[โ€“] Sternout@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't this result in ugly memory leaks?

[โ€“] tnuctip@mastodonapp.uk 4 points 1 year ago

@Sternout @jnovinger
Maybe, but (apart from the "Accidental Immortalisation" case mentioned in PEP 683) these things are created deliberately by C extensions.
A sane extension shouldn't be building loads of them on the fly in the first place.