Changes by Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org:
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http://bugs.python.org/issue12998
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New submission from M abcdefg.abcdefghijklmnopqrs...@gmail.com:
When using Python 2.5.4 on Windows (and potentially other versions and
platforms), usage of CTypes like the following cause a memory leak. The memory
leak can be verified with ProcessExplorer, as the memory Python takes up keeps
M abcdefg.abcdefghijklmnopqrs...@gmail.com added the comment:
Correction to the above link: See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7452625/python-ctypes-memory-leak-with-structure
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Alex Gaynor alex.gay...@gmail.com added the comment:
This is caused by a cache which is kept of array's for different (Structure,
length) pairs.
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M abcdefg.abcdefghijklmnopqrs...@gmail.com added the comment:
If it is a cache, shouldn't it be garbage-collected or limited in size? Why
does it grow without bounds?
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Sebastian Wiesner lunary...@googlemail.com added the comment:
Why should it? After all, you're sort of abusing ctypes by repeatedly creating
Struture types over and over again. C structures that you might want to wrap
with these types are fixed and known at the time of programming, so there
Stefan Krah stefan-use...@bytereef.org added the comment:
I can reproduce the leak with Python 2.5.4, but not with Python 2.6.5
or Python 3.2.
Python 2.5.4 is an ancient version. Please upgrade to Python 2.7
or Python 3.2. If the leak still exists, just respond to this issue
and it will be
