Greg Ewing wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Generators are even more special, in that they only require finalisation in >> the first place if they're stopped on a yield statement inside a try-finally >> block. > > I find it rather worrying that there could be a > few rare cases in which my generators cause > memory leaks, through no fault of my own and > without my being able to do anything about it.
The GC changes PJE is looking at are to make sure you *can* do something about it. If the generator hasn't been started, or has already finished, then the GC won't consider it as needing finalisation. > Will there be a coding practice one can follow > to ensure that this doesn't happen? I believe PJE's fix should take care of most cases (depending on how aggressive we can safely be, it may even take care of all of them). If there are any remaining cases, I think the main thing is to avoid keeping half-finished generators around: from contextlib import closing with closing(itr): # Use the iterator in here as you wish # secure in the knowledge it will be # cleaned up promptly when you are done # whether it is a file, a generator or # something with a database connection for item in itr: print item Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com