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

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:09 PM 5/19/2005 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>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)?

No, since it's implemented in C.  (The C equivalent to __del__ does not 
interfere with cyclic GC.)