Op Tuesday 19 May 2015 17:49 CEST schreef Ian Kelly: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: >> I looked at the documentation. Is it necessary to do a: >> p.wait() >> afterwards? > > It's good practice to clean up zombie processes by waiting on them, > but they will also get cleaned up when your script exits.
You are right. I played a little with ipython3, which made finding things out a lot easier. ;-) In my case it is a script, that terminates very soon after being finished with p, but it is certainly good practise to do it myself. I always did a free in my C programming days. I was always told it was not necessary, but I found it better to do it anyway. By the way, what also works is: p = None But it was just a try in ipython3. I would never do this in real code. I was just curious if this would be handled correctly and it is. :-) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list