Oct. 13, 2000
12:26 a.m.
This is a policy decision. Is it okay for the test suite to create garbage that is not collectable by reference counting?
I don't see why that should be forbidden. After all some of the code we test has such leaks -- we haven't declared those absolute bugs.
If yes, what about garbage that is not collectable by the (current) GC?
Can you give an example of how such garbage can be created? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)