break cycles, which are a special problem when running generator tests
that provoke exceptions by invoking the .next() method of a named
generator-iterator: then the iterator is named in globs, and the
iterator's frame gets a tracekback object pointing back to globs, and
gc doesn't chase these types so the cycle leaks.
Also changed _run_examples() to make a copy of globs itself, so its
callers (direct and indirect) don't have to (and changed the callers
to stop making their own copies); *that* much is a change I've been
meaning to make for a long time (it's more robust the new way).
Here's a way to provoke the symptom without doctest; it leaks at a
prodigious rate; if the last two "source" lines are replaced with
g().next()
the iterator isn't named and then there's no leak:
source = """\
def g():
yield 1/0
k = g()
k.next()
"""
code = compile(source, "<source>", "exec")
def f(globs):
try:
exec code in globs
except ZeroDivisionError:
pass
while 1:
f(globals().copy())
After this change, running test_generators in an infinite loop still leaks,
but reduced from a flood to a trickle.
This makes verbose-mode output easier to dig thru, and removes an accidental
dependence on the order of dict.items() (made visible by recent changes to
dictobject.c).
newline at the end if there isn't one already. Expected output has no
way to indicate that a trailing newline was not expected, and in the
interpreter shell *Python* supplies the trailing newline before printing
the next prompt.
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Eric S. Raymond
Skip Montanaro