[Python-Dev] reference leaks, __del__, and annotations

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
>
>> And if we want to have a version of __del__ that can't reference
>> 'self', we have it already: weakrefs with callbacks.
>
> Does that actually work at the moment? Last I heard,
> there was some issue with gc and weakref callbacks
> as well. Has that been resolved?

Talk about FUD.  Yes, it works, as far as I know.

Cheers,
mwh

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