[Python-Dev] Design question: call __del__ for cyclical garbage?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Greg Stein wrote:

> I disagree. I don't think a Python-level function is going to have a very
> good idea of what to do
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Much better then the Python interpreter...

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> Throwing it out to Python won't help
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> what happens when an unexpected cycle arrives?

Don't delete it.
It's as simple as that, since it's a bug.

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