[Python-Dev] Resource leaks warnings
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Wed Sep 29 15:11:44 CEST 2010
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:42:27 pm Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> My assumption is/was that the benefit of warning against leaks in
> real applications (or even - sigh - the standard library) would
> outweigh the inconvenience when hacking together a quick script.
>
> But if it doesn't, what about enabling it with a command-line switch?
I think the ability to detect such file descriptor leaks would be
valuable, but I'm not sure that it should be running all the time. At
the risk of bike-shedding, is it something which could be controlled at
runtime, like garbage collection? E.g. something like:
gc.enable_file_warnings()
run_my_tests_for_leakage()
gc.disable_file_warnings()
or similar. (I'm not wedded to it being in the gc module.)
Otherwise, I'm +0.25 on enabling it with a command line switch, and -0
on turning it on by default.
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Steven D'Aprano
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