> Conclusion: I vote for a kind of GC that does just what refcounts > cannot do, but please keep with the refcounts. The patch that I received and that has Tim's <0.5 blessing> does just that. I haven't had the time to understand why it doesn't have his <1.0 blessing>. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)