Why less emphasis on private data?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Andrea Griffini a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> 
>  >> ... and on
> 
>>> the opposite I didn't expect that fighting with object
>>> leaking in complex python applications was that difficult
>>> (I've heard of zope applications that just gave up and
>>> resorted to the "reboot every now and then" solution).
>>>
>> Zope is a special case here, since it relies on an object database...
> 
> 
> Just to clarify my post... I found by being punched myself
> in the nose what does it mean to have a complex python
> application that suffers from object leaking; it's not
> something I only read about zope programs.
> 
> But why zope applications would be a special case ?

1/ because of how Zope and the ZODB work
2/ because Zope is an unusually complex Python application.

FWIW, I've never had any memory problem with other Python applications 
and/or frameworks I've used so far (ie: in the past seven years) - most 
of them being somewhat 'simpler' than if they had been implemented in C 
or C++...