Removing previous tracers

[robinsonkwame]

Excellent library, I just started using hunter and have really enjoyed using it.

While playing around with hunter and trace I find that I have a lot of previous references to tracers that I no longer need.

hunter.stop() will set _last_tracer to None but if I make another call to hunter.trace(...) the previous tracers are shown to still reside in memory.

What's the best way to clear out unneeded tracers in hunter?

[ionelmc]

This sounds like a bug? Do you have an example of how you see the prev tracer still lingering around?

Either way the prev tracer area is going to get some rework to make coverage work smoothly so it would be great to get your example tested.

[ionelmc]

@robinsonkwame any update?

[robinsonkwame]

Sorry, I just haven't had time to pursue this. I think I discovered that while previous tracers were listed in memory they weren't firing if they were shutdown, but I'd have to attempt to recreate the problem again.

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[ionelmc]

@robinsonkwame what do you mean by "they were shutdown"?

[ionelmc]

@robinsonkwame also note that hunter does not warn you about using it like this:

hunter.trace()
hunter.trace()

or:

with hunter.trace():
    with hunter.trace():
        ...

Maybe we could have some sort of warning but how I'd know if the user didn't actually intend to have multiple tracing scopes?