how to count lines in a file ?

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:01 pm, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Richard Jones]
>
> > I think the major problem that we're running into here is that
> > before there was GC, the refcounting-based cleanup of objects was clear,
> > straight-forward and reliable. Now it's not clear when objects are
> > cleared up.
>
> Then you don't understand CPython's flavor of gc:  refcounting didn't go
> away in CPython.  [snip]
> Did you catch that the example was run under Jython?  Jython never used
> refcounting.

Ah, this is my fundamental misunderstanding. So it's Jython that changed the 
rules because it doesn't do refcounting. Righto, all clear now.

It's still a problem that I was completely unaware of - I should have paid 
more attention to Jython, even though I didn't figure it'd have any impact on 
things I wrote :(


> Yet it shouldn't be "a problem" at all.  Nothing has changed except that you
> have fewer memory leaks.

But something has changed - files aren't closed reliably in Jython when they 
are in CPython.


   Richard