Scott Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been having trouble with the garbage collector and sockets.
> Unfortunately, google keeps telling me that the problem is the garbage
> collector ignoring dead (closed?) sockets instead of removing live
> ones. My problem is
>
>
> x.sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> do_stuff(x.sock)
>
>
> def do_stuff(sock):
> sock_list.append(sock)
>
>
> once do_stuff finishes, x.sock disappears, and I can only believe it
> is being garbage collected. I'd like to hear the standard means for
> avoiding this issue (gc appears to have only the interface to declare
> something garbage, not to declare something not garbage).
The code as shown doesn't work:
>> import socket
>> def do_stuff(sock):
.. sock_list.append(sock)
..
>> sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>> do_stuff(sock)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<stdin>", line 2, in do_stuff
NameError: global name 'sock_list' is not defined
>>
If you add "sock_list = []" just before the def of do_stuff, the code
will work, and your sockets won't get garbage collected.
<mike
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