[Python-Dev] RE: CVS Python is unstable

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:35:24AM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>   So it's illegal to call PyObject_GC_Fini() anywhere but from the
> destructor?  Please let me know so I can make this clear in the
> documentation!

No, its okay as long as the object is not reachable from other
objects.  When tuples are added to the tuple free-list
PyObject_GC_Fini() is called.  When they are removed
PyObject_GC_Init() is called.  This is okay because free tubles
aren't reachable from anywhere else.

> It's not at all clear that we need to remove the restriction --
> documenting it would be required.

Yah, sorry about that.  I had forgotten about that restriction.
When I saw Tim's message things started to come back to me.  I
had to study the code a bit to remember how things worked.

  Neil