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Clarify the situation with the memory allocation for PyConfig.home #100251

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mmomtchev opened this issue Dec 14, 2022 · 0 comments
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Clarify the situation with the memory allocation for PyConfig.home #100251

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mmomtchev commented Dec 14, 2022

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https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/init_config.html#c.PyConfig.home

Empirically, it seems that CPython expects this value to be allocated with malloc() as it will try to free() it when finalizing the environment. This is in stark contrast to the now deprecated Py_SetPythonHome which expected that the value is statically allocated.
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