[reportlab-users] Reusing flowables can cause problems

Christoph Zwerschke cito at online.de
Thu Sep 14 16:42:16 EDT 2006


Robin Becker wrote:
> indeed you're right. You're supposed to chuck them away after use. The 
> alternative would be for the story processor to copy them and only use 
> the copy, but it was felt that would be too expensive.

Yes, they shouldn't be copied. But what speaks against the story 
processor going through the Flowables at the beginning and resetting all 
those state attributes which are used by the story processor (is there 
anything else that is used except _postponed?)

-- Chris


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