[Python-Dev] results of id() and weakref.getweakrefs() sometimes break on object resurrection

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/27/2014 12:23 PM, Stefan Richthofer wrote:
>
>> You mean Jython deletes instance attributes before calling __del__ ?
>
> No. I think the term of "object resurrection" usually does not mean
> bringing
> back a deleted object in the sense that memory was already freed.
> I think it rather means that nothing referred to an object, so it was on
> the
> "kill-list" of gc or zero-ref-count macro.

In either case, there is a final reference keeping the object alive, 
like an hospital patient kept alive by a final link with a life-support 
machine.  I think 'resuscitation' might be a better metaphor.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy