Circular references and python

[James Logajan]

Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
> Apply Neil Schemenauer's patches that convinces Python to use the
> Boehm garbage collector, or just live with the garbage, if your
> program is relatively short-lived. You can find his patch at:
> 
>   http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python/gc.html
> 
> Manually freeing memory is ugly and error-prone. Don't do it. :)

The vast majority of code (and programming languages) in the world require
explicit memory de-allocation. I don't believe that a GC scheme has yet been
invented that will work well for all problem domains. I'm sure if it had,
we'd all be using it by now. ;)