On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@mithrandi.net>wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Diego Woitasen <di...@woitasen.com.ar> > wrote: > > I reproduce the problem with a modification of Echo client example > > from Twisted documentation: > > Adding __del__ methods causes the object to become uncollectable if it > forms part of a reference cycle. Thus it is almost always a bad idea > to add __del__ methods when attempting to debug a space leak, as the > most likely outcome is that you introduce a _new_, _different_ leak to > the one you are trying to debug. > -- > mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar > > Thanks for pointing this out. I was reading through this whole thread and going "why hasn't anyone else pointed out how wrong it is to add __del__ to debug this yet???". -- Christopher Armstrong http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/ http://planet-if.com/
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