[Tutor] Question about the memory manager

[James Chapman]

If you read the comment that goes with the code snippet pasted in the
original email it makes far more sense as the author is talking
specifically about out of memory errors...


"You already got excellent answers, I just wanted to add one more tip
that's served me well over the years in a variety of language for the
specific problem "how to cleanly diagnose, log, etc, out of memory
errors?". Problem is, if your code gets control before enough objects
have been destroyed and their memory recycled, memory might be too
tight to do propert logging, gui work, etc, etc -- how do we ensure
this doesn't happen?

Answer: build an emergency stash so you know you can spend it in such
emergencies:

rainydayfund = [[] for x in xrange(16*1024)]  # or however much you need

def handle_exception(e):
  global rainydayfund
  del rainydayfund
  ... etc, etc ...

" - Alex Martelli


--
James