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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>,
 Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Crash with Python bindings
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"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

> you can avoid the abort (which happens when q.__del__ is called after
> db.__del__).  We could make that sort of cleanup easier with context
> managers for Query objects (we have them for databases since [3]), and
> they look like the only object that keep an internal database
> reference:
>
>   with Database() as db:
>     with Query(db, "*") as q:
>       # do something with q
>     db.close()
>

I'm reminded [1] that this problem still exists. If noone has any idea
of a fix, should we document one of the workarounds?

      
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893057