[raghu, on Heiko Wundram's test program:
import sys
x = {}
i = 0
def test():
global x, i
x[i] = "test"
i += 1
del x[i-1] # Properly clean up x.
for j in xrange(1):
print "Before", j, ":", sys.gettotalrefcount()
test()
print "After", j, ":", sys.gettotalrefcount()
]
> Hm
Hmm...
I tried the gc.collect(). It aint helping. The reference count still
keeps growing till 5 after it which it drops. As you said, it is not
gonna hurt right away.
The only downside in that mysterious up and down thingie is that , we
could get to a wrong conclusion about a leak, if we ran the
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 09:33 schrieb raghu:
> However, the 'non-leaky' one showed a funny trend ...it kept increasing
> the totalrefcount for five iterations (see 1 thru 5) and then dropped
> down by 5 ( See Before 5 : 16584
> After 5 : 16580 ) suddenly and again increase as shown below. However
Heiko,
Thanks for the explanation. I understood the idea of 1 being interned.
Also I understood the globals vars having a reference in the internal
dict.
I ran the "leaky" version of the program and yes...it showed a
progressively increasing totalrefcount as below.
Before 0 : 16579
After 0 : 1658
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 08:28 schrieb raghu:
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import sys
> global a
>
> print "Total Reference count at the start =",sys.gettotalrefcount()
> a=1
> print "a ref count =",sys.getrefcount(a)
> b=a
> print "a ref count =",sys.getrefcount(a)
>
> del a
> del b
>
> print "Total R
