10 May
2005
10 May
'05
5:29 p.m.
On Tue, 10 May 2005 08:13:34 -0400 Todd Miller <jmiller@stsci.edu> wrote:
I'm nervous about sticking in a circular reference (the Memmap already remembers it's slices) but I suppose the garbage collector was added for exactly this case. I'm not entirely sure how hard it's going to be to add.
Yes, this is a good point. But also, memmaps have a close method so users can always explicitly break this cycle if they want. Either way, appropriate warnings should be added to the documentation. bye, Simon. -- Simon Burton, B.Sc. Licensed PO Box 8066 ANU Canberra 2601 Australia Ph. 61 02 6249 6940 http://arrowtheory.com