Is there a way to cleanup the resources used by Adafruit_NeoPixel?

[Looking4OffSwitch]

Is there no way to reset a strip so that it can be reused without having to restart my Python script? I see that the Adafruit_NeoPixel has a _cleanup() method but doing the following results in unpredictable behavior (i.e. the LEDs don't function as expected):

clock = LEDClock(led_segments=32, leds_per_segment=9, pin=18, freq=800000, dma=10,
                 brightness=200, invert=False, channel=0, strip_type=ws.WS2812_STRIP)
clock.strip._cleanup()

clock2 = LEDClock(led_segments=32, leds_per_segment=9, pin=18, freq=800000, dma=10,
                  brightness=200, invert=False, channel=0, strip_type=ws.WS2812_STRIP)

In my project, the strip can be used for multiple tasks: a clock, a countdown timer, scrolling text, etc. It would be nice if I could "deallocate" the underlying resources so that each task (Python class) could create and manage it's own Adafruit_NeoPixel instance.

[Gadgetoid]

Until the memory leak(s) in the underlying rpi_w281x library is found and fixed then you neeed to create and manage just a single instance, or you'll run headlong into it. There's nothing the Python wrapper can do about this.

See- jgarff/rpi_ws281x#390

[Looking4OffSwitch]

Thank you so much for your response @Gadgetoid!