[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-678739 ] Leak

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Bugs item #678739, was opened at 2003-02-01 17:54
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Category: None
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Leak

Initial Comment:
I haven't had time to trace down the cause yet, but 
the attached code fragment reveals a leak for 
recursive calls in an inner function definition, inside a 
method definition.

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Comment By: Michael Stone (mbrierst)
Date: 2003-02-01 21:01

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hmmm.... Is this really a leak?
try the following:

def reftest():
  prrefs = sys.gettotalrefcount()
  for i in xrange(2000):
    a = x.f(4)
    nref = sys.gettotalrefcount()
    if nref < prrefs:
      print prrefs, nref, i
    prrefs = nref

shows that every few hundred iterations or so, the refcount drops drastically.  Somehow it's getting cleaned up every once in a while.  Over many many runs, I see no leak in the long term.

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