Message 334523 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I would very much like to see this fixed.

Yes, it can make some extension types immortal, but I believe those types were relying on buggy behavior, and need to be fixed to prevent memory leaks.

I think this is a big enough change to be mentioned in What’s New.

Any ideas for reducing the chance of breakage or increasing the chance of detecting it in user code would help.

I'd recommend that all C extensions have leak detection as part of their test suite. I don't think we can do much better :(

leaking types is unlikely to have a big enough memory impact in most application to be easily detected.

Indeed, it's not a big enough problem in most applications.