[Python-ideas] A way to tell the gc it's OK to delete an object with a __del__

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> PyPy's GC design is (very) different, and allows finalisation of reference
> cycles involving __del__ even in Python 2. That path naturally comes with
> its own C extension compatibility challenges, though.
>

yup -- as does IronPython and Jython.

But particularly for the scientific stack, switching to PyPy is a LOT
harder than switching to 3.4 !

I certainly wouldn't do it for the garbage collection ;-)

-Chris


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