Python Productivity over C++

[Mike Fletcher]

Just a minor note, having spent all of last night (unsuccessfully) trying to
track down a memory leak.  Yes, memory leak tools would be nice to have in
Python.  Hidden memory leaks (cycles) are rare, but when they happen in a
complex project they are often a nightmare to track down.  An optional
garbage collector with a debug mode saying "hey, I found a cycle that wasn't
cleaned up, the objects were: object types, object cycle description" would
be really cool.  Yes, I'd probably remove it for the final proggy, but as a
development tool it would be very, very, useful, and is currently (to my
memory), not available.

0.02
Mike(y)

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Csillag [mailto:drew.csillag at starmedia.net]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:07 PM
To: Steve Mullarkey
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Python Productivity over C++




On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Steve Mullarkey wrote:
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Python's tools are very good (and don't need them a lot of the time
anyhow).  The main thing missing is a GUI builder (but glade and PyGlade
are getting there quickly).  Memory leak tools just don't apply (Python
has reference counted garbage collection).  Programmers editors are
numerous and one is included (IDLE).

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