Real Problems with Python
William Tanksley
wtanksle at hawking.armored.net
Wed Feb 16 16:34:12 EST 2000
On 14 Feb 2000 17:33:13 +0100, Martin von Loewis wrote:
>François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> very much like the current implications of reference counting. When I write:
>> for line in open(FILE).readlines():
>> I rely on the fact FILE will automatically get closed, and very soon since
>Indeed. I think Tim's right here (as always:); if the request for
>garbage collection is rephrased as 'reclaim cycles', everybody will be
>happy.
I'd like that, but I also like the idea of not having to track memory
usage when writing C extensions. I think Ruby's done a good job of
showing what's possible here.
>Martin
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