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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28" id="pyfinalize-safety" name="pyfinalize-safety"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyFinalize</span></tt> Safety</a></h2>
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<p>Currently Boost.Python has several global (or function-static)
objects whose existence keeps reference counts from dropping to
zero until the Boost.Python shared object is unloaded.  This can
cause a crash because when the reference counts <em>do</em> go to zero,
there's no interpreter.  In order to make it safe to ca