Okay, thanks, definitely true.
Le jeudi 17 avril 2014 07:27:13 UTC+2, Glyph Lefkowitz a écrit : > > > On Apr 16, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Jonathan Slenders > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Just a thought... if in the event loop we would use weakrefs for sockets. > Do we ever have to handle CancelledError? > Would the socket automatically be closed by the garbage collector if there > is no reference anymore to the transport, and because of that also no > reference to the socket anymore? > > > Relying on this is a recipe for disaster. It's a great way to get > mysterious unbounded resource leaks, mysterious GC-preventing circular > references, and crashes when you run out of file descriptors. > > All of this is two or three times as bad if you care about running on > PyPy, where garbage collection semantics mean files may not be closed for > much longer if there isn't a lot of memory pressure. > > -glyph >
