[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-485139 ] mem leak in interpreter from syntax err
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Bugs item #485139, was opened at 2001-11-24 10:45
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.2
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: mem leak in interpreter from syntax err
Initial Comment:
when a syntax error occurs in the interpreter, the
interpreter leaks
see the attached file for more info
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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-12-07 08:46
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Neal writes:
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I tried:
for i in range(1000):
try:
import t2
except SyntaxError:
print
But that doesn't leak. I think the reason it doesn't leak
is because
of the try/except. I opened the interpreter and
interactively
created syntax errors (=<return>, =<return>, ...) and it
leaked
for each error, not just once 874 bytes, instead of 38 for
1.
If there is a way to raise a syntax error without exitting
the interpreterr
I think it could blow up faster.
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My comment: if it only leaks when you don't catch it, that
doesn't bother me much, since that's the end of the process.
:-) So I'm closing this.
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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-12-06 19:11
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Neil, can you provide more evidence? I can't see this leak
in a loop, like this:
| while 1:
| try: compile("/", "", "exec")
| except SyntaxError: pass
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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-11-27 12:05
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Assigned to Barry.
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