[SciPy-dev] Numeric

[Manuel Metz]

Hi,
I figured out where the bug is, see attached patch.

Travis, could you please fix the bug !!!

Manuel

Manuel Metz wrote:
> Hi,
> I know that development of Numeric has ceased and we should switch to
> numpy. Nevertheless there will be some code around which still uses
> Numeric, maybe for some years. Therefore:
> 
> I found a memory leak in Numeric 24.2. I noticed it on Windows and Linux
> (Debian). The following code consumes lots of memory which it should not
> do !!!
> 
> 
> from Numeric import *
> for i in xrange(1000000):
>     a = array( [1,2,3] )
>     b = a.tolist() # <- here seams to be the memory leak
> 
> 
> Could anyone fix that !? PLEASE !
> 
> Manuel
> 
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