Garbage collector - please Help !!

Erno Kuusela erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Thu Jan 18 13:30:48 EST 2001


In article <9475ob$c6v$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, etienne at alias.it writes:

| This convinced me that it is due to the Python garbage collector, is
| this correct?

[...]

| I'm using PythonCore 1.5.2, Is there any resonable chance that Python
| 2.0 will do a better job?

the reference counting gc in python 1.5 does not work if you have
cyclic references between objects. it is fixed in 2.0.


   -- erno



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