Memory management

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Tue Jul 25 20:18:08 EDT 2000


"Michael Hudson" <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:m3zon6asl3.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk...

> I'm guessing that you have reference cycles; these can be fun to find,
> and even more fun to eliminate.  However the code you posted didn't
> create any cycles, so either post some more, or go and stare at your
> code some (ask Gordon about the "hypnotising bricks" approach...).

It is well worth tracking down Tim Peters' "Cyclops" module - has found
many a reference leak for me.

Cyclops.py doesnt appear to be in the Python CVS tree - I think it should!

Mark.






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