[Python-Dev] refleak hunting season (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Aug 2 17:39:27 CEST 2004

Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> writes:

Michael Hudson wrote:

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

Michael> I've hacked regrtest again (patch attached).

Why not just check your regrtest changes into cvs? Because I'm not quite happy with them; I hope to make the changes I want after the run I'm doing with -uall finishes (so, erm, Thursday or so :-). I would prefer it, if the refcounting was done for each test method not only for the complete test. This would help in finding the leak but unfortunately would required changes to unittest.

Certainly, this is a superior solution. However, it also has the problem that from regrtest you can't tell whether a given test is using unittest, doctest or whatever. It's probably possible to redesign things so this is all elegant and natural, but I actually wanted to get somewhere with this :-)

Cheers, mwh

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