[Python-Dev] reference leaks, __del__, and annotations

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 1 02:52:23 CEST 2006


Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Generators are even more special, in that they only require finalisation in 
> the first place if they're stopped on a yield statement inside a try-finally 
> block.

I find it rather worrying that there could be a
few rare cases in which my generators cause
memory leaks, through no fault of my own and
without my being able to do anything about it.

Will there be a coding practice one can follow
to ensure that this doesn't happen?

--
Greg


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