[gst-devel] python-gst and garbage collection of pipeline elements

[Edward Hervey]

Hi,

On 11/27/06, Antoine Pitrou <antoine.pitrou at wengo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I cannot reproduce the problem in the way you describe.  Can you provide
> > a (preferably small) example program that triggers the problem?
>
> Well, thanks for asking that.
> I've tried to reproduce it and it actually boils down to : if I call
> gc.collect() only once, not everything is collected, but if I call it
> twice or more, it's ok.
> I didn't expect this because my code does not create any obvious loop
> containing the weakref'd attribute, so I thought refcounting would
> finalize it at soon as possible.
>
> The clean solution I've found is to remove that attribute in the
> do_stop() method of the containing element, which automatically
> finalizes it without having to call gc.collect().

  Nice to see people writing python-based elements. Would your
elements be of any use to the gst community ? We could put them in
gst-python/examples/ if they're good.

  Edward

>
> So, sorry for the false alert.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
>
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Edward Hervey
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