May 19, 2005
8:27 p.m.
At 07:18 PM 5/19/2005 +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
"Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> writes:
However, Tim's new post brings up a different issue: if the collector can't tell the difference between a cycle participant and an object that's only reachable from a cycle,
Uh, that's not what he meant:
/>> class C: |.. def __del__(self): |.. print 'bye' \__ ->> a = [C()] ->> a.append(a) ->> del a ->> gc.collect() bye 1
Now you've shaken my faith in Uncle Timmy. :) Seriously, he did *say*: """For example, it doesn't know the difference between an object that's in a trash cycle, and an object that's not in a trash cycle but is reachable only from trash cycles.""" So now I wonder what he *did* mean.