[ZODB-Dev] Old memory leak related to the ObjectWriter?

[Jeremy Hylton]

On 9/1/05, Tim Peters <tim at zope.com> wrote:
> [Jeremy Hylton]
> > What version of Python?  I believe we added cyclic GC support to
> > picklers to address this problem,
> 
> That sounds right.
> 
> > but that was probably for Python 2.4.
> 
> But that doesn't.  Cyclic gc wasn't new in 2.4, and for ZODB 3.3 the first
> release that even had a 2.4 Windows installer was 3.3 final.  We developed
> with then-current Python 2.3 all along.

Indeed, it seems like only yesterday but CVS claims it was nearly
two-and-a-half years ago and was included in Python 2.3.

Jeremy