Question about garbage collection

Akkana Peck akkana at shallowsky.com
Mon Jan 15 14:21:05 EST 2024


> Frank Millman wrote at 2024-1-15 15:51 +0200:
> >I have read that one should not have to worry about garbage collection 
> >in modern versions of Python - it 'just works'.

Dieter Maurer via Python-list writes:
> There are still some isolated cases when not all objects
> in an unreachable cycle are destroyed
> (see e.g. step 2 of
> "https://devguide.python.org/internals/garbage-collector/index.html#destroying-unreachable-objects").

Also be warned that some modules (particularly if they're based on libraries not written in Python) might not garbage collect, so you may need to use other methods of cleaning up after those objects.

        ...Akkana


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