On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:27:32 -0500 Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:37:57 -0500 > > Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > > > >> 2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > >> > Also, I would point out that the reference counting behaviour is an > >> > important feature of *C*Python (to the point that we have test cases > >> > checking against reference cycles), so we can't break it nilly-willy. > >> > >> The tests about reference cycles are just tests that garbage is > >> collected, a Python language feature. Those aren't technically CPython > >> specific. > > > > We do have tests which check reference cycles are not created. > > Oh, those. Those are implementation details.
At this point I'm not sure which statement you are arguing against. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
