[New-bugs-announce] [issue17908] Unittest runner needs an option to call gc.collect() after each test

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum:

It would be nice if there was a command-line option to tell the test runner to call gc.collect() after each test.

See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/python-tulip/tstjvOQowIU/IRihc8NCHZUJ -- Glyph points out that always doing this is problematic because it slows down tests too much; OTOH it's a useful option to have in case you're tracking down something that happens (or doesn't happen) when an object is collected (e.g. in __del__).

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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: easy
messages: 188420
nosy: gvanrossum
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unittest runner needs an option to call gc.collect() after each test
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4

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