On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 11:53:22AM +0000, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > Hi, > > I just found a neat trick to free up an emergency stash of memory in a > funtion that overrides sys.excepthook.
> rainydayfund = [[] for x in xrange(16*1024)] # or however much you need > def handle_exception(e): > global rainydayfund > del rainydayfund > ... etc, etc ... I was going to write a scornful email about how useless this would be. I still think it's useless, but I see that the idea comes from Alex Martelli, who normally knows what he is talking about, so that makes me pause and think and perhaps do some experiments before commenting. Even the best programmer can have some weird idiosyncratic superstitions, but only a fool would assume that Alex Martelli has got it wrong without doing some careful investigation. So let me get back to you :-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
