Skip Montanaro wrote:
I think in Python 2.0 it would be nice to have some way to reclaim circular dependencies without the programmer explicitly having to do something like implement a destroy() method and requiring other programmers to (remember to) call it. I forget what the current state of affairs is w.r.t. future memory management in Python. Not knowing anything much about memory management, would it be possible to have a sort of mixed ref count/garbage collection system where you only use the gc stuff as a last resort? My thought is that it would be useful to use gc to find and reclaim circular garbage.
can-you-tell-I-just-got-bitten-by-a-circular-reference?-ly y'rs
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