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Posted: **Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:47 pm**

Also posted on GitHub: https://github.com/Source-Python-Dev-Team/Source.Python/issues/2

It was though to find code that actually replicates this issue, because at first it seemed to happen quite randomly. There might be more cases then this one.

It seems to happen when passing/storing playerinfo objects to multiple functions; I'm guessing they go out of scope when the first function finishes execution:

To reproduce

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import command_c

def h(playerinfo, command):
    test(playerinfo)
    test(playerinfo)
    
def test(playerinfo):
    e = playerinfo.get_edict()
    e.get_index()
    print(e)

def load():
    command_c.register_client_command_filter(h)
    
def unload():
    command_c.unregister_client_command_filter(h)

Which will result in:

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<entity_c.CEdict object at 0x12345678>
(Traceback here)
RuntimeError: access violation - no RTTI data

Posted: **Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:12 am**

Okay, it seems Python will garbage collect the edict instance because it thinks there are no more references to it, so solution is to either create a new object and return it OR make sure it doesn't get collected (adding __del__ should do that job, but it cause other problems):

So in fix players_wrap.cpp:

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CEdict* CPlayerInfo::get_edict() const
{
   return new CEdict(m_edict_ptr->get_edict());
}

See also: https://github.com/OmegaK2/Source.Python/tree/fixes