258 lines
15 KiB
HTML
258 lines
15 KiB
HTML
|
||
<!DOCTYPE html>
|
||
|
||
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
|
||
<head>
|
||
<meta charset="utf-8" />
|
||
<title>Allocating Objects on the Heap — Python 3.7.4 documentation</title>
|
||
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pydoctheme.css" type="text/css" />
|
||
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
|
||
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" id="documentation_options" data-url_root="../" src="../_static/documentation_options.js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/language_data.js"></script>
|
||
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/sidebar.js"></script>
|
||
|
||
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
|
||
title="Search within Python 3.7.4 documentation"
|
||
href="../_static/opensearch.xml"/>
|
||
<link rel="author" title="About these documents" href="../about.html" />
|
||
<link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" />
|
||
<link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" />
|
||
<link rel="copyright" title="Copyright" href="../copyright.html" />
|
||
<link rel="next" title="Common Object Structures" href="structures.html" />
|
||
<link rel="prev" title="Object Implementation Support" href="objimpl.html" />
|
||
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="../_static/py.png" />
|
||
<link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/allocation.html" />
|
||
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/copybutton.js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/switchers.js"></script>
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<style>
|
||
@media only screen {
|
||
table.full-width-table {
|
||
width: 100%;
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
</style>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</head><body>
|
||
|
||
<div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
|
||
<h3>Navigation</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
|
||
<a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
|
||
accesskey="I">index</a></li>
|
||
<li class="right" >
|
||
<a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
|
||
>modules</a> |</li>
|
||
<li class="right" >
|
||
<a href="structures.html" title="Common Object Structures"
|
||
accesskey="N">next</a> |</li>
|
||
<li class="right" >
|
||
<a href="objimpl.html" title="Object Implementation Support"
|
||
accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li>
|
||
<li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt=""
|
||
style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<span class="language_switcher_placeholder">en</span>
|
||
<span class="version_switcher_placeholder">3.7.4</span>
|
||
<a href="../index.html">Documentation </a> »
|
||
</li>
|
||
|
||
<li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >Python/C API Reference Manual</a> »</li>
|
||
<li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="objimpl.html" accesskey="U">Object Implementation Support</a> »</li>
|
||
<li class="right">
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="inline-search" style="display: none" role="search">
|
||
<form class="inline-search" action="../search.html" method="get">
|
||
<input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" />
|
||
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
|
||
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
|
||
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
|
||
</form>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript">$('.inline-search').show(0);</script>
|
||
|
|
||
</li>
|
||
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
<div class="document">
|
||
<div class="documentwrapper">
|
||
<div class="bodywrapper">
|
||
<div class="body" role="main">
|
||
|
||
<div class="section" id="allocating-objects-on-the-heap">
|
||
<span id="allocating-objects"></span><h1>Allocating Objects on the Heap<a class="headerlink" href="#allocating-objects-on-the-heap" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c._PyObject_New">
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a>* <code class="descname">_PyObject_New</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><a class="reference internal" href="type.html#c.PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a><em> *type</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c._PyObject_New" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em></dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c._PyObject_NewVar">
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyVarObject" title="PyVarObject">PyVarObject</a>* <code class="descname">_PyObject_NewVar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><a class="reference internal" href="type.html#c.PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a><em> *type</em>, Py_ssize_t<em> size</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c._PyObject_NewVar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em></dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c.PyObject_Init">
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a>* <code class="descname">PyObject_Init</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a><em> *op</em>, <a class="reference internal" href="type.html#c.PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a><em> *type</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c.PyObject_Init" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: Borrowed reference.</em><p>Initialize a newly-allocated object <em>op</em> with its type and initial
|
||
reference. Returns the initialized object. If <em>type</em> indicates that the
|
||
object participates in the cyclic garbage detector, it is added to the
|
||
detector’s set of observed objects. Other fields of the object are not
|
||
affected.</p>
|
||
</dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c.PyObject_InitVar">
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyVarObject" title="PyVarObject">PyVarObject</a>* <code class="descname">PyObject_InitVar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyVarObject" title="PyVarObject">PyVarObject</a><em> *op</em>, <a class="reference internal" href="type.html#c.PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a><em> *type</em>, Py_ssize_t<em> size</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c.PyObject_InitVar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: Borrowed reference.</em><p>This does everything <a class="reference internal" href="#c.PyObject_Init" title="PyObject_Init"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PyObject_Init()</span></code></a> does, and also initializes the
|
||
length information for a variable-size object.</p>
|
||
</dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c.PyObject_New">
|
||
TYPE* <code class="descname">PyObject_New</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span>TYPE, <a class="reference internal" href="type.html#c.PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a><em> *type</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c.PyObject_New" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em><p>Allocate a new Python object using the C structure type <em>TYPE</em> and the
|
||
Python type object <em>type</em>. Fields not defined by the Python object header
|
||
are not initialized; the object’s reference count will be one. The size of
|
||
the memory allocation is determined from the <a class="reference internal" href="typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject.tp_basicsize" title="PyTypeObject.tp_basicsize"><code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_basicsize</span></code></a> field of
|
||
the type object.</p>
|
||
</dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c.PyObject_NewVar">
|
||
TYPE* <code class="descname">PyObject_NewVar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span>TYPE, <a class="reference internal" href="type.html#c.PyTypeObject" title="PyTypeObject">PyTypeObject</a><em> *type</em>, Py_ssize_t<em> size</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c.PyObject_NewVar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em><p>Allocate a new Python object using the C structure type <em>TYPE</em> and the
|
||
Python type object <em>type</em>. Fields not defined by the Python object header
|
||
are not initialized. The allocated memory allows for the <em>TYPE</em> structure
|
||
plus <em>size</em> fields of the size given by the <a class="reference internal" href="typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject.tp_itemsize" title="PyTypeObject.tp_itemsize"><code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_itemsize</span></code></a> field of
|
||
<em>type</em>. This is useful for implementing objects like tuples, which are
|
||
able to determine their size at construction time. Embedding the array of
|
||
fields into the same allocation decreases the number of allocations,
|
||
improving the memory management efficiency.</p>
|
||
</dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="function">
|
||
<dt id="c.PyObject_Del">
|
||
void <code class="descname">PyObject_Del</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span>void<em> *op</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c.PyObject_Del" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><p>Releases memory allocated to an object using <a class="reference internal" href="#c.PyObject_New" title="PyObject_New"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PyObject_New()</span></code></a> or
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="#c.PyObject_NewVar" title="PyObject_NewVar"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PyObject_NewVar()</span></code></a>. This is normally called from the
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject.tp_dealloc" title="PyTypeObject.tp_dealloc"><code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_dealloc</span></code></a> handler specified in the object’s type. The fields of
|
||
the object should not be accessed after this call as the memory is no
|
||
longer a valid Python object.</p>
|
||
</dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<dl class="var">
|
||
<dt id="c._Py_NoneStruct">
|
||
<a class="reference internal" href="structures.html#c.PyObject" title="PyObject">PyObject</a> <code class="descname">_Py_NoneStruct</code><a class="headerlink" href="#c._Py_NoneStruct" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
|
||
<dd><p>Object which is visible in Python as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>. This should only be accessed
|
||
using the <a class="reference internal" href="none.html#c.Py_None" title="Py_None"><code class="xref c c-macro docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Py_None</span></code></a> macro, which evaluates to a pointer to this
|
||
object.</p>
|
||
</dd></dl>
|
||
|
||
<div class="admonition seealso">
|
||
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
|
||
<dl class="simple">
|
||
<dt><a class="reference internal" href="module.html#c.PyModule_Create" title="PyModule_Create"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PyModule_Create()</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>To allocate and create extension modules.</p>
|
||
</dd>
|
||
</dl>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation">
|
||
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
|
||
<h4>Previous topic</h4>
|
||
<p class="topless"><a href="objimpl.html"
|
||
title="previous chapter">Object Implementation Support</a></p>
|
||
<h4>Next topic</h4>
|
||
<p class="topless"><a href="structures.html"
|
||
title="next chapter">Common Object Structures</a></p>
|
||
<div role="note" aria-label="source link">
|
||
<h3>This Page</h3>
|
||
<ul class="this-page-menu">
|
||
<li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Doc/c-api/allocation.rst"
|
||
rel="nofollow">Show Source
|
||
</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="clearer"></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
|
||
<h3>Navigation</h3>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
|
||
<a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
|
||
>index</a></li>
|
||
<li class="right" >
|
||
<a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
|
||
>modules</a> |</li>
|
||
<li class="right" >
|
||
<a href="structures.html" title="Common Object Structures"
|
||
>next</a> |</li>
|
||
<li class="right" >
|
||
<a href="objimpl.html" title="Object Implementation Support"
|
||
>previous</a> |</li>
|
||
<li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt=""
|
||
style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li>
|
||
<li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<span class="language_switcher_placeholder">en</span>
|
||
<span class="version_switcher_placeholder">3.7.4</span>
|
||
<a href="../index.html">Documentation </a> »
|
||
</li>
|
||
|
||
<li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >Python/C API Reference Manual</a> »</li>
|
||
<li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="objimpl.html" >Object Implementation Support</a> »</li>
|
||
<li class="right">
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="inline-search" style="display: none" role="search">
|
||
<form class="inline-search" action="../search.html" method="get">
|
||
<input placeholder="Quick search" type="text" name="q" />
|
||
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
|
||
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
|
||
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
|
||
</form>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript">$('.inline-search').show(0);</script>
|
||
|
|
||
</li>
|
||
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="footer">
|
||
© <a href="../copyright.html">Copyright</a> 2001-2019, Python Software Foundation.
|
||
<br />
|
||
The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation.
|
||
<a href="https://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a>
|
||
<br />
|
||
Last updated on Jul 13, 2019.
|
||
<a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>?
|
||
<br />
|
||
Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 2.0.1.
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
</body>
|
||
</html> |