[Python-Dev] Combining the best of PEP 288 and PEP 325: generator exceptions and cleanup

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> - When a generator is GC'ed, its close() method is called (which is a
> no-op if it is already closed).

Does this mean that all generators will be ineligible
for cyclic garbage collection (since they implicitly
have something equivalent to a __del__ method)?

Other than that, all this looks good.

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