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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-11-30 03:18:29 +0000
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-11-30 03:18:29 +0000
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Issue #5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API to exit with status 120 on failure
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@@ -578,9 +578,9 @@ Sometimes, it is desirable to "uninitialize" Python. For instance, the
application may want to start over (make another call to
:c:func:`Py_Initialize`) or the application is simply done with its use of
Python and wants to free memory allocated by Python. This can be accomplished
-by calling :c:func:`Py_Finalize`. The function :c:func:`Py_IsInitialized` returns
+by calling :c:func:`Py_FinalizeEx`. The function :c:func:`Py_IsInitialized` returns
true if Python is currently in the initialized state. More information about
-these functions is given in a later chapter. Notice that :c:func:`Py_Finalize`
+these functions is given in a later chapter. Notice that :c:func:`Py_FinalizeEx`
does *not* free all memory allocated by the Python interpreter, e.g. memory
allocated by extension modules currently cannot be released.