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Strongly disagree. If you're relying on Python garbage collection to free file descriptors in a loop, you have a subtle bug that will rear its head in unexpected and painful ways (and by some unwritten law of software, most notably either at 3 AM or when you have an important demo scheduled). This is true whether you're running in CPython or PyPy. It's not hard to avoid - use `with` or `try...finally`. It's not some…
> If you're relying on Python garbage collection to free file descriptors in a loop Again, that's a proscription for how to write python code for future execution. It's emphatically not a statement for the behavior expected by python code already in production, which tends to rely on this behavior (along with many other such warts and subtleties) implicitly. And the fact that PyPy doesn't feel the need to clone it (a…
Re: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
#181It's not about feeling smart or dumb. I'm not doubting that lack of perfect compatibility is holding pypy back, though I suspect it's more related to C extensions and libraries than it is to bug-for-bug compatibility with the garbage collector. I just think that code which does this specific wrong thing that you've mentioned is already doomed to not work reliably even under CPython.