On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Brian Granger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I'm not on the SAGE list so not dual-posting) > > > > > A few of us (ipython and mpi4py devs) are wondering what the > > > best/safest way of allocating dynamic memory in a local scope > > > (method/function) is when using cython. An example would be if you > > > need an array of c ints that is locally scoped. > > > > > Won't try-finally work here? > > I don't see why it wouldn't. But, typical usages of sage_malloc are > not protected in that way.
Maybe they should be. Note by the way though that it's a bit tricky since in the finally block you have to know whether things when wrong and memory has to be freed or not. -- William _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
