GC...

[Michael Hudson]

Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes:

> If two python objects mutally refer to eachother, but aren't
> referred to globally in any current namespace, will they be
> garbage collected?

No.  However, this might change; Neil Schemenauer has a patch that
corrects this, but it probably won't be going into 1.6, as it's a bit
of a fundamental change.  Prospects are good for 1.7, though, and
Chris was talking about merging it into stackless a while back...

Anyway, you want to see:

   http://www.enme.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python/gc.html

Cheers,
M.

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