Re: [OpenBabel-scripting] Too many open files error

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

Noel,

> Has this changed the idiom for iterating through multimolecule files?
> That is, is the example code at the top of
> http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/wiki/Developer:Python_Tutorial still
> the correct method? In short, by using this method, am I allocating
> memory that is never freed?

Yes, in version 2.1, you don't need to call OBMol::Clear(), so you  
can change the idiom. On the other hand, in Python, I think the newly- 
created molecule would be freed like any other python object. You can  
certainly confirm by running over a few thousand objects while  
watching memory.

In any case, that's not the issue in this particular bug. We seem to  
be leaving files open. I know it's a problem for gzipped files, but  
I'll have to investigate for regular files.

Thanks,
-Geoff