"NS" == Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> writes:
NS> The -l option tries to find any cyclic garbage produced by the NS> tests. I don't think that that option should be enabled NS> default. The output means that the GC is working and is finding NS> stuff that would not be freed by reference counting alone. NS> I can't tell if the GC would free this garbage. The -l option NS> sets the DEBUG_SAVEALL option which causes all garbage found to NS> end up in gc.garbage, not just garbage the can't be cleaned up. NS> I don't have pyexpat installed here so I can't test it. If you NS> want to find out if test_minidom is creating garbage the NS> collector can't free you should comment out the: NS> gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL) NS> line in regrtest.py and run: NS> regrtest.py -l test_minidom NS> If that does what I think it does and you still get the NS> "garbage: " line then the test is creating evil things. :) The test is not creating evil things. I commented out the DEBUG_SAVEALL line and got no error report. The question, then, is what to do about the -l option. I assume we should remove the -l option from the Makefile, so that "make test" doesn't turn on DEBUG_SAVEALL. Or do we need to change regrtest in some way so that it still reports on tests that create evil things? Jeremy