Re: [Pyobjc-dev] memory leak

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

On 12 May, 2011, at 22:47, Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:

> You are right about not making much sense in using a NSString this way. I did it out of distraction.
> My question is still on. Why the warning ? I just want to understand, because I don't get it.

It's a bug in the copy of PyObjC that's included in OSX 10.6:

$ /usr/bin/python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
:>>> from Foundation import NSString
:>>> NSString.alloc().init()
__main__:1: UninitializedDeallocWarning: leaking an uninitialized object of type NSPlaceholderString
u''
:>>> s = _
:>>> type(s)
<type 'objc.pyobjc_unicode'>
:>>> 

I haven't researched yet why this happens, and later versions work properly.

Ronald

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel Santos
> 
> On May 12, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
>> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> But is there a reason to use any of them on an *empty* NSString?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Greg
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