closes #118; fix seglfault in python operator #252

Job	Run time
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.11, 2.2.0, 118) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.11-torch2.2.0+cu118	13m 45s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.10, 2.2.0, 118) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.10-torch2.2.0+cu118	15m 58s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.10, 2.2.0, 121) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.10-torch2.2.0+cu121	15m 38s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.8, 2.2.0, 121) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.8-torch2.2.0+cu121	15m 3s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.8, 2.2.0, 118) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.8-torch2.2.0+cu118	14m 58s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.11, 2.2.0, 121) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.11-torch2.2.0+cu121	13m 54s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.9, 2.2.0, 121) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.9-torch2.2.0+cu121	15m 13s
build (ubuntu-20.04, 3.9, 2.2.0, 118) / ubuntu-20.04-py3.9-torch2.2.0+cu118	17m 36s
build (windows-2019, 3.10, 2.2.0, 118) / windows-2019-py3.10-torch2.2.0+cu118	21m 6s
build (windows-2019, 3.10, 2.2.0, 121) / windows-2019-py3.10-torch2.2.0+cu121	18m 39s
build (windows-2019, 3.11, 2.2.0, 118) / windows-2019-py3.11-torch2.2.0+cu118	16m 22s
build (windows-2019, 3.11, 2.2.0, 121) / windows-2019-py3.11-torch2.2.0+cu121	16m 57s
build (windows-2019, 3.8, 2.2.0, 118) / windows-2019-py3.8-torch2.2.0+cu118	27m 32s
build (windows-2019, 3.8, 2.2.0, 121) / windows-2019-py3.8-torch2.2.0+cu121	22m 30s
build (windows-2019, 3.9, 2.2.0, 118) / windows-2019-py3.9-torch2.2.0+cu118	24m 15s
build (windows-2019, 3.9, 2.2.0, 121) / windows-2019-py3.9-torch2.2.0+cu121	20m 47s
gh_release	43s
	4h 50m 56s

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