Re: [Python-ideas] anonymous object support

I heard that particular pattern leaks memory?

I don't believe it does anymore, because of the cyclic garbage collector. Devin On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, dag.odenhall@gmail.com wrote:

On 4 August 2011 06:39, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Herman Sheremetyev wrote:

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Both of them do the same thing as well as give access to the values using [] notation. There are probably other examples in third party libraries.

Sure. Another stdlib-ish example is Sphinx, which does it in sphinx.util.attrdict. And you can search google code for 'self.__dict__ = self', which reveals a particular(ly nasty) pattern for it with many instances.

Devin

I heard that particular pattern leaks memory?