Preferred usage

During its execution, gym-DSSAT writes files in a temporary folder and uses sockets through the TCP protocol. These elements require to be properly terminated.

To gracefully exit the environement, preferred usage is:

try:
    env = gym.make(...)
    ...
    env.step(action_dict=...)
    ...
finally:
    env.close()

Danger

If your program crashes or if you skip the env.close step, the environment may not be properly terminated. As a consequence, you may experience zombie processes suceptible to interfer with new instances and cause bugs. If such case happens, you can kill the process by hand, for instance using pkill -9 dscsm048.