fork()
Graham Matthews
graham at sloth.math.uga.edu
Thu Jun 10 22:58:10 EDT 1999
Guido van Rossum (guido at cnri.reston.va.us) wrote:
: Of course finalizers are still screwed, since if an instance is
: involved in a cycle, I may have zapped its instance variables before
: calling its __del__. (To break the cycles, the collector would call
: the clear() method of all unmarked dicts, which would break the
: cycles, and then the ref counting would free the depending objects.)
This is why I suggested two pass collection. Don't zap things in pass
one. Zapping things is exactly what removes the context in which __del__
methods can run predictably and without error. Do the zapping in pass
2.
graham
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