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bug: reuse of exception causing memory leak
In the code, there is
key_string_error = TypeError('Key/name must be a string!')
which create exception on place, where it does not occur.
And later use
raise self.key_string_error
Which append new tracebak to existing one in this exception object so the traceback grows without bounds.
It is later imposible to debug the code, because the traceback can be very long. It also introduces memory leak, because key_string_error is class variable and is never freed.
Expected solution:
Raise new instance of TypeError('Key/name must be a string!') every time, or create new exception type with predefined message for this.
Example code to reproduce the issue:
import pickledb
import traceback
db = pickledb.load('example.db', False)
for i in range(100):
try:
db.set({}, "")
except TypeError:
print("***********************************")
traceback.print_exc()