[Stackless] Memory leak with Stackless and generators

[Jeff Senn]

On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Carlos Eduardo de Paula wrote:

> This happens here too. Using Windows XP SP2..

On OS-X as well...(in stackless 2.5 but not in 2.4.3)

<sigh> I hate the complexity of Python's internal generator code these
days... it looks like frames and cframes are being constantly generated.

Here, this demonstrates the leak for anyone who feels like pursuing  
immediately.
Notice frames/cframe accrue and never go away.
---------------------------

def foo():
   yield 1

import gc
check = []
while 1:
   gc.collect(2)
   before  = gc.get_objects()
   for i in foo():
     pass
   gc.collect(2)
   after = gc.get_objects()
   print len(before),len(after)
   for x in check:
     if x not in after:
        print "this never prints out so these objects are around  
forever"
        break
   for x in after:
     if x is not before and x is not after and x not in before:
       print "NEW THING",repr(x)[:40]
       check.append(x)


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