[Python-Dev] Combining the best of PEP 288 and PEP 325: generator exceptions and cleanup

[Michael Hudson]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

> However, Tim's new post brings up a different issue: if the collector can't 
> tell the difference between a cycle participant and an object that's only 
> reachable from a cycle,

Uh, that's not what he meant:

/>> class C:
|..  def __del__(self):
|..   print 'bye'
\__ 
->> a = [C()]
->> a.append(a)
->> del a
->> gc.collect()
bye
1

Cheers,
mwh


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