Manually prompting garbage collection

[Fredrik Lundh]

Kyle Lanclos wrote:

> I want to modify the above sequence to manually prompt Python's garbage
> collection routine(s) to take over (performance is not an issue here),
> similar to the following:
> 
> Py_XDECREF (some_callback);
> PyCollect_Garbage ();
> closeService (some_service);
> return;
> 
> Is that possible?

what magic do you expect the "manual garbage collection" to do here that 
the DECREF doesn't already do?

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