-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote:
> Now to just work out the root cause of the memory errors ... It's important to remember that Python's email parsing code sucks the entire message text into memory and keeps large attachments in memory after parsing too. There could be a number of problems associated with this, including a memory leak that causes the raw text to be kept even after parsing, or that the attachment is just to big to be kept in memory after parsing. There have been talks over the years about how to modify the email package's api's so that it would be possible to store large attachments in a separate file outside of core memory, but this has yet to be done. Now would be a good time to look into it again, if we have any hopes of getting something like this into Python 2.6 and 3.0. However, this isn't the right place to discuss such changes -- those should happen on Python's email sig: http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig Cheers, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHqFHa2YZpQepbvXERAtYvAJ9C0dNZQrePE/ICqlF1uXuYffNvHwCcDvVz 3lpV5w9yQqJfq8WaN9bVkww= =pmiS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
