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Author gvanrossum
Recipients gvanrossum, theller
Date 2007-12-12.20:26:14
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> The minimal code reporting the -33/+33 leaks that I found is simply this:
>
>    os.popen('ls').read()
>
> Is there a problem in "os.popen(...)", or do I something wrong here?

Try this instead:

 p = os.popen('ls')
 try:
   x = p.read()
 finally:
   p.close()

IOW close the pipe explicitly. That should make the code execute in a
more reproducible fashion. I've fixed this in ctypes/util.py now:
r59477.
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