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Re: unittest weirdness

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: unittest weirdness
Date 2014-03-12 22:27 -0400
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On 3/12/2014 11:32 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

> I strongly suspect it's memory.  When I originally wrote the code I
> tried to include six months worth of EoM data, but had to back it down
> to three as my process kept mysteriously dying at four or more months.
> There must be waaaaaaay too much stuff being kept alive by the stack
> traces of the failed tests.

There is an issue or two about unittest not releasing memory. Also, 
modules are not cleared from sys.modules, so anything accessible from 
global scope is kept around.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-11 13:58 -0700
  Re: unittest weirdness John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-03-11 22:13 +0000
    Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-11 15:29 -0700
    Re: unittest weirdness Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-11 23:36 -0400
    Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 03:03 -0700
      Re: unittest weirdness Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-12 09:44 -0400
        Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 08:32 -0700
          Re: unittest weirdness Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-12 13:48 -0400
          Re: unittest weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-12 23:14 +0000
          Re: unittest weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-12 23:47 +0000
            Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 17:31 -0700
        Re: unittest weirdness Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-12 22:27 -0400
  Re: unittest weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-12 23:38 +0000
    Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 17:36 -0700

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