Re: [Pyobjc-dev] memory leak

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 8 May, 2011, at 19:51, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have some python code in a pyobjc app. At some point I want to initialize a NSString :
> 
> 	string = NSString.alloc().init()

Which version of pyobjc do you use? This works for me:

>>> from Foundation import NSString
s = NSString.string>>> s = NSString.string()
>>> s
u''
>>> s = NSString.alloc().init()
>>> s
u''

The PyObjC version can be found using:   python -c 'import objc; print(objc.__version__)'

Ronald

> 
> In the terminal I get the following output :
> 
> /Users/dlsa/code/cirrusstore/client/build/cirrusclient.app/Contents/Resources/menubaractions.py:44: UninitializedDeallocWarning: leaking an uninitialized object of type NSPlaceholderString
>  string = NSString.alloc().init()
> 
> 
> I have in my objective C bootstrap code the creation of an Auto release pool.
> 
> If I try :
> 
> 	string = NSString.alloc().init().autorelease()
> 
> I get the same warning.
> 
> Why does this happen ?
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