How to pass char* class member from python to C++ - running into memory issue

[pkirpekar14]

Hi,

I have exposed a class member that is of type char*.
I pass a python str to it and it seems like everything works; however when I call another function later, it seems like the char* pointer is getting overwritten inside the C++ function via some memory allocation. The C++ code is not explicitly rewriting or allocating that memory however looks to me on the C++ side, it is not aware that the memory was passed in from python (char*) and some other call allocates into the same memory space. Any help will be appreciated.