Re: [matplotlib-devel] Memory leaks

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Interesting...
> 
> When you get a chance, would you mind running the attached script?  This 
> is how I was finding object leaks before.  It takes a single commandline 
> argument that is the number of iterations.  Can you send me the outputs 
> from 1 and 2 iterations?  That way we should be able to see what type of 
> object is being leaked, which is a good first step.

And here is the result of the script modified for gtk:

efiring@manini:~/programs/py/mpl/tests$ python memleak_gui_gtk.py 1
55352 55417
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Colormap'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.FileChooserDialog'>
*** <class 'gtk._gtk.WidgetFlags'>
*** <class 'gtk._gtk.WidgetFlags'>
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Window'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.FigureCanvasGTK'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.NavigationToolbar2GTK'>
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Pixmap'>
*** <type 'gtk.Tooltips'>
*** <type 'gtk.Label'>
*** <type 'gtk.Window'>
*** <type 'gtk.VBox'>

uncollectable list: []

efiring@manini:~/programs/py/mpl/tests$ python memleak_gui_gtk.py 2
55352 55421
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Colormap'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.FileChooserDialog'>
*** <class 'gtk._gtk.WidgetFlags'>
*** <class 'gtk._gtk.WidgetFlags'>
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Window'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.FileChooserDialog'>
*** <class 'gtk._gtk.WidgetFlags'>
*** <class 'gtk._gtk.WidgetFlags'>
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Window'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.FigureCanvasGTK'>
*** <class 'matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk.NavigationToolbar2GTK'>
*** <type 'gtk.gdk.Pixmap'>
*** <type 'gtk.Tooltips'>
*** <type 'gtk.Label'>
*** <type 'gtk.Window'>
*** <type 'gtk.VBox'>

uncollectable list: []

Eric