Bracket orders - am I supposed to only have one open at a time?

[booboothefool]

In the documentation: https://www.backtrader.com/blog/posts/2017-04-01-bracket/bracket/

There is code like:

def next(self):
        if self.orefs:
            return  # pending orders do nothing

def notify_order(self, order):
        if order.status == order.Completed:
            self.holdstart = len(self)

        if not order.alive() and order.ref in self.orefs:
            self.orefs.remove(order.ref)

 self.orefs = [o.ref for o in os]

        else:  # in the market
            if (len(self) - self.holdstart) >= self.p.hold:
                pass  # do nothing in this case

I am wondering what the point of all this is? It makes it look like it's not a good idea to have multiple brackets open at a time. I am indeed running into issues with duplicates/bracket orders hanging around. Can someone clarify if I should be using this template of "pending orders do nothing"?

[run-out]

@booboothefool
Indeed with one data there should only be one bracket open. However, when using multiple datas, then you need a dictionary to manage the orders. See the article here and the code at the bottom.