fixed a memory leak that caused the pe file to be access locked.

erocarrera / pefile

pefile is a Python module to read and work with PE (Portable Executable) files

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fixed a memory leak that caused the pe file to be access locked. #386

Closed daniel-mekuria closed 10 months ago

daniel-mekuria commented 1 year ago

this fixes an issue similar to #356 that exists when using with python312 and 311, I didn't test with other versions. couldn't find where the leak is, so gc.collect() from the gc module is used at the end of the _close_data() function to clear all unreachable and uncollected memory and release the file access lock.

erocarrera commented 10 months ago

Thanks!, I've checked and this change frees plenty of unreachable objects upon close.