Consider the following code inside a one-line pyx file:

cdef object someint = 7

Then Cython generates the following inside the module init function:

  /*--- Global init code ---*/
  __pyx_v_9refleaks2_someint = Py_None; Py_INCREF(Py_None);

  /* "/u/dalcinl/Devel/Cython/sandbox/refleaks2.pyx":1
 * cdef object someint = 7             # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
 *
 */
  Py_INCREF(__pyx_int_7);
  __pyx_v_9refleaks2_someint = __pyx_int_7;


Clearly, Py_None references are being leaked. All this is because of
bad interaction between this two methods:

* ModuleNode.generate_global_init_code(...) (in ModuleNode.py)
* FinalOptimizePhase.visit_SingleAssignmentNode(...) (in Optimize.py)



-- 
Lisandro Dalcín
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Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC)
Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
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