[reportlab-users] IOError: Too many open files

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi,

I have a script where I call my report_maker.py script that uses Reportlab,
In said script, I open several JPGs, which are logos that go on the report.
This report script is called for each payment in a payment file. We
recently ran into an issue where we have over 650 payments and when we hit
payment 507 or 508, we get the following traceback:


Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "Phaze03_local.py", line 512, in main

   File "/home/somebody/report_maker.py", line 836, in CLVCP_clear

   File "/home/somebody/report_maker.py", line 598, in createDocument

   File
"/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/flowables.py", line
329, in __init__

   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/reportlab/lib/utils.py", line
452, in open_for_read

The section of code in question appears to be:

img = utils.ImageReader(img_path)

However, I tried doing an "img.fp.close()" that appears to help, but then I
also use Image from platypus that also has this issue.

I tried changing tactics by reading the file into StringIO and passing
Image that, but that just moves the issue to where I read the file. For
those curious, I do this:

with open(self.logo_path, "rb") as logo_fh:
            self.logo_path = StringIO( logo_fh.read() )

Anyway, now I get the same basic error, but at this line instead. Does
anyone know how to fix this? I've read about upping the number of open file
limit with the resource module, however we not only don't seem to be able
to do this, but we also don't really want to.

I am running on CentOS with Python 2.6. Thanks!


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Mike Driscoll

Blog:   http://blog.pythonlibrary.org
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