Overwriting / reassigning instance / garbage collection?

Werner Schiendl ws-news at gmx.at
Thu Oct 30 12:19:37 EST 2003


Hi,

Ken Godee wrote:
> 
> q1 now has a new address, so I'm
> assuming the old q1 instance now has a
> reference count of zero and python will garbage collect it?????
> 

of course, the old one will eventually be garbage collected.

The question is, what do you actually want to do?


hth

Werner





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