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Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 00:09:13 CEST 2010


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2010/9/7 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>> I've raised an RFE (http://bugs.python.org/issue9789) to point out
>> that the need for that GC collect call in there to make the test
>> portable to other implementations is rather ugly
>
> Why? You're testing garbage collection, so you should call garbage collection.

Having that test *as well* as a specific release test (to check
implicit as well as explicit release) is a different story (we do that
for generators, files and assorted other things). Having forced GC
invocation be the only way to do explicit release is the part I found
ugly.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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