Oct. 12, 2000
1:28 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:21:39PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Any form of evilness that can be detected without *too* much effort is worth it... I have no idea what kind of evil we're looking for here or how to detect is, so I can't answer yes or no.
That would be reference cycles with finalizers (ie. instances with __del__ methods). The current garbage collector does not free such structures but instead appends them to gc.garbage. Sorry for not being clear. In any case, regrtest should probably print a more clueful message when objects are found in gc.garbage. That would go a long way in clearing up the confusion. I'll see about a patch. Neil