unittest weirdness

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:32:29 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

> There must
> be waaaaaaay too much stuff being kept alive by the stack traces of the
> failed tests.


I believe that unittest does keep stack traces alive until the process 
ends. I thought that there was a recent bug report for it, but the only 
one I can find was apparently fixed more than a decade ago:

http://bugs.python.org/issue451309





-- 
Steven D'Aprano
http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/