Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Stefan Krah wrote: > > Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: > > To add to the mystery, the leak disappears if the key value is not > interned in PyDict_SetItemString:
I'm not sure how you determine what is a leak and what not. Interned Unicode objects stay alive until the interpreter is finalized. Are you suggesting that the finalization does not free the interned Unicode strings or not all of them ? > Index: Objects/dictobject.c > =================================================================== > --- Objects/dictobject.c (revision 70459) > +++ Objects/dictobject.c (working copy) > @@ -2088,7 +2088,6 @@ > kv = PyUnicode_FromString(key); > if (kv == NULL) > return -1; > - PyUnicode_InternInPlace(&kv); /* XXX Should we really? */ > err = PyDict_SetItem(v, kv, item); > Py_DECREF(kv); > return err; ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10156> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com