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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Apr 1 15:54:25 CEST 2006

Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:

Hi Neal,

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:39:50PM -0800, Neal Norwitz wrote: testpkg leaked [10, 10, 10] references This one at least appears to be caused by dummy (deleted) entries in the dictionary of interned strings. So it is not really a leak.

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

It is a pain that it is so hard to figure this out, though. Wouldn't it make sense to find a trick to exclude these dummy entries from the total reference count? E.g. by subtracting the refcount of the dummy object...

Something like that would be nice, yes...

Cheers, mwh

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