[Python-Dev] Python 2.3a1's mandatory use of cyclic GC causes existing applications to fail

[Christian Tismer]

Tim Peters wrote:
...
> In the absence
> of cyclic gc, extension modules can't use the trashcan machinery without
> editing the core Python source code to teach the trashcan about each type
> that wants to participate, and the trashcan implementation was much harder
> to get right (it took us years to get to the state where we thought it might
> finally be right <wink>).

It might be not so hard to make trashcan able
to register new types at run-time.

ciao - chris
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