[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] Python Regression Test Failures refleak (101)

[Thomas Wouters]

On 5/28/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [... a huge number of reference leaks reported ...]
>
> FYI, I "reduced" the relatively simple test_bisect's leaks to this
> self-contained program:


Funny, I reduced it to more or less the same thing, except the other way
'round: I suspected exceptions to be the source of the leak, so I kept
adding more complicated exception processing to my leak-test until it
started leaking; it started leaking the moment I added a doctest to it, but
not before. I somewhat doubt it's directly related to exceptions, though.

Michael Hudson also mentioned it on #nfs, and it seems he went a little
further:

00:54 <mwh> i found that test.test_support.check_syntax reliably leaks 5
            references
00:55 <mwh> as does compile('1=1', '', 'exec') in fact
00:58 <mwh> it's leaking a tuple containing two Nones a string and an int, i
            think
01:00 <mwh> oh well, i guess sean and richard know what they changed...

Does 'a tuple containing two Nones, a string and an int' ring a bell to
anyone? :)

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