[Python-Dev] GC and ExtensionClass - a summary of the problem and a workaround

[Guido van Rossum]

> On further investigation, it turned out that it was caused by a bug in my
> code generator that caused one extension class to be initialised before
> its base class (in fact, that particular extension class shouldn't have
> had any base classes).  It was just the cyclic GC code triggering the bug.
> 
> It will be fixed in the next snapshot of pygtk for GTK+ 2.0

Excellent news, James!  I love the open source process!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)