Re: [Pyobjc-dev] memory leak

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

On 8 May, 2011, at 23:56, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:
> 
>> 	string = NSString.alloc().init()
>> 
>> /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()
> 
> Python strings get converted to NSStrings automatically where
> needed, so is there some reason you can't use an empty Python
> string instead?

I don't know why Daniel wants to use an NSString, but there are reasons to use NSString instead of Python unicode strings, for example because NSString has a number of usefull methods with no easy native equivalent.

Ronald
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