Revert "Fix a memory leak when creating Python3 modules. (#2019)"
This reverts commit 819802da9926535714acf2bffe690b04f90cb12b.
diff --git a/include/pybind11/pybind11.h b/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
index 8e9c55d..d95d61f 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
@@ -794,16 +794,11 @@
explicit module(const char *name, const char *doc = nullptr) {
if (!options::show_user_defined_docstrings()) doc = nullptr;
#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
- PyModuleDef *def = PyMem_New(PyModuleDef, 1);
+ PyModuleDef *def = new PyModuleDef();
std::memset(def, 0, sizeof(PyModuleDef));
def->m_name = name;
def->m_doc = doc;
def->m_size = -1;
- def->m_free = [](void* module ) {
- if (module != nullptr) {
- Py_XDECREF(PyModule_GetDef((PyObject*) module));
- }
- };
Py_INCREF(def);
m_ptr = PyModule_Create(def);
#else