Garbage collector strategy

[Stephen Kellett]

In message <87brcmk76f.fsf at web.de>, Martin Drautzburg 
<martin.drautzburg at web.de> writes
>Just for curiosity: does python use a mark-and-sweep garbage collector
>or simple reference counting? In the latter case it would not garbage
>collect circular references, right ?

gcmodule.c in the python sources shows the implementation, plus the code 
for this is well documented.

Stephen
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