Circular references (was: Defining VCL-like framework for Python)

[Hans Nowak]

On 20 May 99, Ce'Nedra took her magical amulet and heard Graham Matthews say:

>Hans Nowak (ivnowa at hvision.nl) wrote:
>: It seems that cyclic references are one of Python's problems, yes. So
>you : need to avoid those. :^)
>
>The problem is that as I understand the Python implementation you can very
>easily make circular refs the without even knowing you are doing it via
>globals. Or has this been changed?

I don't know very much about this subject... I know it can be a problem with 
deleting objects... they sit in memory because there's still a reference to 
them, while you thought you deleted it. I can't really give an example 
though. I didn't hear about circular references via globals without even 
knowing it.

I'm sure there are people who have more to say on this... *hint*

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