[Python-Dev] gc.get_referents

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "MvL" == Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

    MvL> In

    MvL> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=483815&group_id=5470&atid=105470

    MvL> Zooko complains that "referent" can either mean "referrer" or
    MvL> "referree", and proposes to rename it to get_referrers.

    | Sounds good to me, but
    | 1. EINMNL (English is not my native language), and
    | 2. We are past 2.2beta.

    MvL> Still, I'm willing to change the code and documentation, if
    MvL> others think it is a good idea to change it now. It probably
    MvL> isn't a good idea to change it later, since that would
    MvL> produce incompatibilities.

I'd consider this a bug then and approve changing it for 2.2rc1.
...Just looked at the SF bug and Guido agrees.

Neil or Fred, please make it so!
-Barry