Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Snapshots

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

Cool -- I was worried that disabling the garbage collector would cause 
the python interpreter to leak objects like a sieve.   Fortunately, the 
gc module is optional and, as such, it shouldn't cause a significant 
problem to disable it.

I'm reworking the PyCocoa PBX project to support Apple's python.

thanks!

b.bum

On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 03:19 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On Thursday, Oct 10, 2002, at 21:26 Europe/Amsterdam, Bill Bumgarner 
> wrote:
>
>> I'm able to cause a bus error from just the objc module.  However, 
>> the actual ObjC interface side of things seems to work fine -- it 
>> seems to be some kind of a pure Python related problem....
>
> I've done some experiments and it seems to be related to the garbage 
> collector (the 'gc' module). If I call 'gc.disable()' before using the 
> objc module python doesn't crash.
>
> The current HEAD contains a workaround in Modules/objc/__init__.py 
> that calls gc.disable() when the python version is 2.2.0. This is a 
> bit of a hack, but at least allows you to use the Apple version of 
> python.
>
> BTW. This may be a bug in PyObjC but it could also be a bug in Python 
> 2.2.0 that is triggered by our code.