Why do I see digest replies to posts I never saw in a digest? [was: RE: Why I fail so bad to check for memory leak with this code?]

[pjfarley3 at earthlink.net]

OT to the original subject, but can anyone explain to me why in the forum digest emails I receive I often see a reply to a post that I never saw the original of in any prior digest?

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Sulla <Marco.Sulla.Python at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2022 3:41 PM
> To: Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org>
> Cc: MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>; Python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Why I fail so bad to check for memory leak with this code?
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 09:00, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> > With code as complex as python’s there will be memory allocations that
> occur that will not be directly related to the python code you test.
> >
> > To put it another way there is noise in your memory allocation signal.
> >
> > Usually the signal of a memory leak is very clear, as you noticed.
> >
> > For rare leaks I would use a tool like valgrind.
> 
> Thank you all, but I needed a simple decorator to automatize the memory leak
> (and segfault) tests. I think that this version is good enough, I hope that can be
> useful to someone:
<Useful code snipped> 
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