[Gdal-dev] NG Python bindings, and SWIG 1.3.29

[Christopher Barker]

> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> invoking Destroy() or Release() on an
>> ogr.DataSource is *not* causing it to be closed immediately and this is
>> causing serious problems for tests that require this.

Is it closing later?

>> Currently this just seems to decrement the
>>    Python reference count leaving it up to the Python VM to invoke the
>>    close function when it pleases.

Just to help clarify: In C-Python, the object is deleted right away when 
the reference count goes to zero. That's not guaranteed by the language 
spec, but is is how the current interpreter works, and a lot of people 
do count on it.

So you probably have an extra reference to the object in there, or 
perhaps there's a bug in SWIG.

-Chris



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