Tobias, Try pygame revision 2953 and confirm that the bug is fixed. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php
Thanks! Jason ________________________________ From: Lenard Lindstrom <le...@telus.net> To: pygame-users@seul.org Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 10:56:14 PM Subject: Re: [pygame] BUG: Memoryleak in pygame.sprite.GroupSingle Hi, Yes Tobias, that is right. GroupSingle.draw is inherited from AbstractGroup, which adds each sprite drawn to the spritedict dictionary. It is a bug, though technically not a memory leak since the sprites are still referenced. Lenard Lindstrom On 17/11/10 02:48 PM, Jason M. Marshall wrote: > Tobias, > Here's my theory: I think that GroupSingle's spritedict dictionary is growing >by 1 sprite every time that the draw method is called. The spritedict >dictionary >is not emptied by GroupSingle, so a reference to each newly-created sprite >remains even after a new sprite has been put into GroupSingle. I'll have to >test >my theory before I'm certain though. If that's the problem, then I'll fix it. > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Tobias Steinrücken <t.steinruec...@conesoft.org> > *To:* pygame-users@seul.org > *Sent:* Tue, November 16, 2010 4:18:04 PM > *Subject:* [pygame] BUG: Memoryleak in pygame.sprite.GroupSingle > > Hello, > > for me it seems that GroupSingle dosnt release references to the old > Sprite when a new Sprite is beeing assigned. > > ive attached 2 Files. > pygame_memleak.py actually triggers the leak (Dont uncomment the sleep - > it will eat your memory instantly!). > In the second file pygame_memleak2.py i just changed GroupSingle to > Group and s.sprite = ... to s.empty(); s.add( ... ) to achieve the same > behaviour as GroupSingle - and this one works fine. > > > Im using: > Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56) [GCC 4.4.5] (64-Bit) > Pygame 1.9.1release > (The default Ubuntu 10.10 setup -but ive seen this on older Versions of > Python aswell) > -- Conesoft / Brose - Steinrücken GbR > > Ehm. Service4every1 > > Flemerskamp 19 a 44319 Dortmund > > Telefon: +49 (0) 231 / 108722231* > Fax: +49 (0) 231 / 283798 > E-Mail: t.steinruec...@conesoft.org <mailto:t.steinruec...@conesoft.org> > > Gesellschaftsform: Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts > Sitz: Dortmund > Geschäftsführer: Roland Brose, Tobias Steinrücken > USt-IdNr.: DE237763154 > >
