From: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:17:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Delete the items variable (and explain why).
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a2~50
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bfed9c22547d1f950bb4bcbb54acae894e9b343;p=python

Delete the items variable (and explain why).
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sax.py b/Lib/test/test_sax.py
index 8786094a97..210ca19666 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sax.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sax.py
@@ -687,6 +687,10 @@ items.sort()
 for (name, value) in items:
     if name[ : 5] == "test_":
         confirm(value(), name)
+# We delete the items variable so that the assignment to items above
+# doesn't pick up the old value of items (which messes with attempts
+# to find reference leaks).
+del items
 
 if verbose:
     print "%d tests, %d failures" % (tests, len(failures))