[Python-Dev] Cycle collection enhancement idea

[Antoine Pitrou]

eyal.lotem+pyutils <at> gmail.com <eyal.lotem <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> That would be no worse than what happens now - but its still not
> perfect (__del__ ordering issues). Also, you would need to temporarily
> revive the cycles as mentioned above (to avoid accessibility of
> partially destructed objects).

The idea is to call all __del__'s *before* any object in the cycle is
deallocated (that is, call them manually rather than as part of deallocating
them). That way you shouldn't have the issues mentioned above.