[Python-Dev] reference leaks

[Neal Norwitz]

On 11/25/05, Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> wrote:
>
> Can you move the call to codecs.register_error() out of test_callbacks()
> and retry?

It then leaks 3 refs on each call to test_callbacks().

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>>> import codecs
[24540 refs]
>>>
[24541 refs]
>>> def handler(exc):
...   l = [u"<%d>" % ord(exc.object[pos]) for pos in xrange(exc.start, exc.end)]
...   return (u"[%s]" % u"".join(l), exc.end)
...
[24575 refs]
>>> codecs.register_error("test.handler", handler)
[24579 refs]
>>>
[24579 refs]
>>> def test_callbacks():
...   # the {} is necessary to cause the leak
...   codecs.charmap_decode("abc", "test.handler", {})
...
[24604 refs]
>>> test_callbacks()
[24608 refs]
>>> test_callbacks()
[24611 refs]
>>> test_callbacks()
[24614 refs]