[Zodb-checkins] CVS: ZODB3 - README.txt:1.7.4.14.4.4

[Tim Peters]

Update of /cvs-repository/ZODB3
In directory cvs.zope.org:/tmp/cvs-serv6841

Modified Files:
      Tag: Zope-2_6-branch
	README.txt 
Log Message:
Explain how to get rid of huge steaming mounds of gc.garbage printouts
when running the tests on Windows with Python 2.1.3.

Help!  I don't know enough about restructured text to know whether the

    def __del__(self):
        self.close()

part will get rendered as intended.


=== ZODB3/README.txt 1.7.4.14.4.3 => 1.7.4.14.4.4 ===
--- ZODB3/README.txt:1.7.4.14.4.3	Thu Sep 11 15:15:32 2003
+++ ZODB3/README.txt	Thu Sep 11 15:24:21 2003
@@ -127,6 +127,19 @@
 The test script has many more options.  Use the ``-h`` or ``--help``
 options to see a file list of options.
 
+Windows + Python 2.1.3 note:  The test driver looks at gc.garbage after
+each test, and prints gc.garbage if it's not empty.  An ever-increasing
+list of unreclaimable garbage will get displayed if you run the tests
+on Windows with Python 2.1.3.  The cause is that 2.1.3's socket.py
+supplies a socket wrapper class on Windows, with a needless __del__
+method.  This __del__ method was simply removed in later Python releases.
+You can do the same without harm in a Python 2.1.3 release:  edit
+Lib\socket.py, and comment out, or delete, this code in class
+_socketobject::
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        self.close()
+
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