[PyKDE] DCOP memory leak

[Kovid Goyal]

Does this help:
from dcopext import DCOPClient, DCOPApp
dcop=DCOPClient()
dcop.attach()

player = DCOPApp ("amarok", dcop).player
while 1:
  print player.trackCurrentTimeMs()

Kovid.
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:17:42 Tim De Graeve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a script for Amarok in python that has to do a lot of DCOP
> calls in a short amount of time.
> Now, I have noticed that every time I do a DCOP call my program grows in
> memory usage, the short program below demonstrates this:
>
> from dcopext import DCOPClient, DCOPApp
>
> dcop=DCOPClient()
> 
>
> while 1:
>     AmarokDcopRes = DCOPApp ("amarok", dcop)
>     ok, ms = AmarokDcopRes.player.trackCurrentTimeMs()
>     print ms
>
>
> Note that in the program I'm writing the while loop is replaced by a
> timer event.
> I also noticed that the program only grows in memory use once the 'ok,
> ms = AmarokDcopRes.player.trackCurrentTimeMs()' code is executed.
>
> I already posted my problem on the comp.lang.python Usenet-group and
> someone suggested to post here because my problem seems more to be pyKDE
> and DCOP related.
> Does someone have any suggestions on how I can avoid this memory leak?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tim
>
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