Hallöchen! "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Torsten Bronger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > >> However, this doesn't close sessions while the program is >> running. If the programmer has the above code in a function >> which is called repeatedly, he may run into trouble. IIRC my >> current VISA DLL has only 256 session slots. > > Deleting during a run is a different issue from deleting during > program shutdown, which is where you started us. Well, I talked about shutdown in the OP because only *then* I had experienced problems. Cleaning up is important in every phase of the program, though. > [...] So an explicit close is the only dependable > cross-implementation method that I know of. I agree, but I could live with the little danger of a Python implementation that frees so slowly that the DLL runs out of handles. One could add a close() method for emergency use. However, this __del__ thingy is so damn tempting ... ;-) Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
