Too many open files in python

Question

I wrote kind of a test suite which is heavily file intensive. After some time (2h) I get an IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: \'/tmp/tmpxsqYPm\'. I doubl

Answer 1

resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE is indeed 7, but that's an index into resource.getrlimit(), not the limit itself... resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE) is what you want your top range() to be