Memory Leak In Threaded Com Object With Python

I am creating a COM client within a thread and performing several operations with this client. Each thread is spawned from a server that uses Python's socketserver module which has

Solution 1:

As it turns out this increase in Memory was in fact due to the COM object written in .NET and had nothing to do with threading. Here is a detailed description of Task Manager giving misleading information about memory usage for .NET apps. To resolve this issue I added the following to my code and I am all set. Hopefully someone else reads this response before they start tearing their hair out trying to find a memory leak in their code.

from win32process import SetProcessWorkingSetSize
from win32api import GetCurrentProcessId, OpenProcess
from win32con import PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS

import win32com.client
import threading
import pythoncom

defCreateTom():
    pythoncom.CoInitialize()
    tom = win32com.client.Dispatch("TOM.Document")
    tom.Dataset.Load("FileName")
    tom.Clear()
    pythoncom.CoUninitialize()
    SetProcessWorkingSetSize(handle,-1,-1) #Releases memory after every use

pid = GetCurrentProcessId()
handle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, True, pid)

for i inrange(50):
    t = threading.Thread(target = CreateTom)
    t.daemon = False
    t.start()

Solution 2:

here it is link may help you release COM in python win32

Solution 3:

for me it help (based)::

from comtypes.automation import IDispatch
from ctypes import c_void_p, cast, POINTER, byref

def release_reference(self, obj):
    logger.debug("release com object")
    oleobj = obj._oleobj_
    addr = int(repr(oleobj).split()[-1][2:-1], 16)

    pointer = POINTER(IDispatch)()
    cast(byref(pointer), POINTER(c_void_p))[0] = addr
    pointer.Release()