Memory leak: assigning function object to instance variable

[Alexander Williams]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:55:59 +0100, John Parkey
<jparkey at nospamrapidbs.com> wrote:

>I have registered this bug, with code fragment below, but wondered if

This isn't, technically, a bug.  You create a cyclic reference to self
inside the instances, so the reference counting mechanism for
releasing memory can't let it go.  Standard, expected behaviour for
refcounting garbage collection.

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