Fredrik Lundh <fredrik <at> pythonware.com> writes: > So what you're concerned about is the lack of cleanup during interpreter > shutdown, not a true leak (which would result in "Max widgets" growing > towards infinity).
Yes, sorry about my sloppy terminology. > The problem here is that you're relying on Python's GC to remove things > in a given order during shutdown, something that may or may not happen > depending on lots of things that you cannot control: > > http://www.python.org/doc/essays/cleanup/ > > (Note the repeated use of "In an order determined by the dictionary > hashing of the names" in that article.) > > The only way to get *predictable* shutdown behaviour in situations like > this is to clean things up yourself. But in this case, you might as > well leave the cleanup to the OS. I think you've found the real cause. I changed the name from 'mainwidget' to 'aaa' and the problem went away. I will have to investigate whether there is anything I can do from the Qt side to make sure things get cleaned up more predictably. Many Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
