Is it possible to have an actual memory leak in Python because of your code?

Question

I don\'t have a code example, but I\'m curious whether it\'s possible to write Python code that results in essentially a memory leak.

Answer 1

Since many modules are written in C , yes, it is possible to have memory leaks. imagine you are using a gui paint drawing context (eg with wxpython) , you can create memory buffers but if you forgot to release it. you will have memory leaks... in this case, C++ functions of wx api are wrapped to python.

a bigger wrong usage , imagine you overload these wx widgets methods within python... memoryleaks assured.