On Monday 31 January 2005 14:08, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
As it stands, this idiom works most of the time, and if an EMFILE errno
triggered the GC, it would always work.
That might help things on Unix, but I don't think that's meaningful. Windows
is much more sensitive to files being closed,
Michael CPython CAN leverage such environments, and it IS used that
Michael way. However, this requires using multiple Python processes
Michael and inter-process communication of some sort (there are lots of
Michael choices, take your pick). It's a technique which is more
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:51 -0800, Michael Chermside wrote:
However, remember that changing away from reference counting is a change
to the semantics of CPython. Right now, people can (and often do) assume
that objects which don't participate in a reference loop are collected
as soon as they
