Re: [Twisted-Python] help with refcounts and memleaks

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:31:32PM -0500, Bob Ippolito wrote:

Objects that use __del__ don't participate in cyclic garbage collection. You really want to write code that doesn't need it, or that uses weakref callbacks instead of __del__.

Thanks for the hint! I didn't know that __del__ made a difference to the garabage collection decisions, that combined with an obsolete webpage written in 99 was the source of quite some confusion to me.