My C module crashes

From: Egil Moeller (redhog_at_takeit.se)
Date: 02/28/05 

To: help@python.org, python-list@python.org
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:52:29 +0100

Hi!

I've written a C-module for Python, and it works as intended, but
obviously does something wrong with its memmory management (refference
counting), as it causes Python to segfault now and then (randomly,
whey :S)

The module source code is available at
http://grimoire.takeit.se/files/CReader.c

The code isn't _that_ long, so someone experienced with writing Python C
modules should probably not have that hard a time finding what I do
wrong :)

Thanks in advance,
Egil Möller

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