Message 375956 - Python tracker

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> What I'm not yet clear on: when is that shared object is initialized and destroyed?

I am assuming that you mean at the Python level and not at the linker level. Then:

* Initialized: when dlopen on import.

* Destroyed: never. The interpreter does not dlclose the shared objects.