Python drives me mad...

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Boris Ottlewski wrote:
>   FILE *stream;
>   char temp[8192];
>   new_stdout = PyFile_FromString("c:\\freopen.out", "w");
>   PySys_SetObject("stdout", new_stdout);
>   file://PySys_SetObject("stderr", new_stdout);
>   int res = PyRun_SimpleString("print 2\n");
>   Py_XDECREF(new_stdout);
> 
> This should print the "2" to the redirected stdout which is c:\freopen.out.
> But the file is empty!!!!!!!!!! and...I cant delete it, it is still locked
> (shouldnt Py_XDECREF close it?)

   No, it shouldn't. There are more links to the object (2 links from sys
module; these links are created by you, do you remember?)

Oleg.
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