[Python-Dev] PyGC_Collect ignores state of `enabled`

[Neil Schemenauer]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> PEP 3121 is insufficient, since a lot of extension modules can't (or
> at least haven't) adopted it in practice.
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0489/ has some more background on
> that (since it was the first step towards tackling the problem in a
> different way that extension module authors may be more likely to
> actually adopt)

My idea is that if we can cleanup the built-in extension modules
then maybe that would be enough to stop doing a lot of the
finalization hacks (e.g. module dict clearing).  If 3rd party
extension modules are not fixed, then some finalizers that used to
be called might no longer get called.