[Python-Dev] __traceback__ and reference cycles

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 18:16:22 CEST 2005


On 8/8/05, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Attaching a __traceback__ will only make this "bug" show up more often,
> as the 'except Exception, e' line in a __del__() method would be enough
> to trigger it.

Hmm... We can blame this on __del__ as much as on __traceback__, of
course... But it is definitely of concern.

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