[Python-Dev] refleaks in 2.4 (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sat Apr 1 17:33:41 CEST 2006

Hi Michael,

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:

It's actually because somewhere in the bowels of compilation, the file name being compiled gets interned and testpkg writes out some temporary files and imports them. If this doesn't happen on the trunk, did this feature get lost somewhere?

I guess it's highly non-deterministic. If the new strings happen to take a previously-dummy entry of the interned strings dict, then after they die the entry is dummy again and we don't have an extra refcount. But if they take a fresh entry, then the dummy they become afterwards counts for one ref.

A bientot,

Armin.

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