The attached file reproduces 3 types of FD leaks and leads to the error like:

IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/tmp/1019'

For example if executed with pypy.

I can't reproduce this problem in either 2.7.2 or 3.3.0a0.

> For example if executed with pypy.

Do you mean that this problem is only reproducible when the attached
script is run with pypy?

"I can't reproduce this problem in either 2.7.2 or 3.3.0a0."

You probably mean CPython implementation of Python. No, I didn't mean this implementation.

"Do you mean that this problem is only reproducible when the attached
script is run with pypy?"

I can't say "only". I just could say yes, it is reproducible with pypy. Perhaps, there are others Python implementations that will suffer from the bug in current implementation of ZipFile

Yes, in 2.7 many parts of the stdlib relies on reference counting to close files.  But 3.2 introduced a ResourceWarning which is emitted (in debug mode) each time a __del__ closes a valuable resource like a file or a socket.  This was done exactly for this reason - help other implementations with a different garbage collector.

Now Lib/zipfile.py is probably much more gc-friendly: see how it uses a new member "close_fileobj", and the "with" statement in ZipFile.read().

PyPy will benefit of this when it migrates to 3.2; meanwhile, you could apply the same changes in pypy's own copy of zipfile.py.

Amaury, I followed your advice. All relevant changes of 3.2 are backported via the patch attached.

P.S. now I can install Twisted using pypy too. "pypy setup.py install" works fine for me.