At 07:18 PM 5/19/2005 +0100, Michael Hudson wrote: >"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, Tim's new post brings up a different issue: if the collector > can't > > tell the difference between a cycle participant and an object that's only > > reachable from a cycle, > >Uh, that's not what he meant: > >/>> class C: >|.. def __del__(self): >|.. print 'bye' >\__ >->> a = [C()] >->> a.append(a) >->> del a >->> gc.collect() >bye >1
Now you've shaken my faith in Uncle Timmy. :) Seriously, he did *say*: """For example, it doesn't know the difference between an object that's in a trash cycle, and an object that's not in a trash cycle but is reachable only from trash cycles.""" So now I wonder what he *did* mean. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
