bug?: exception and references

[Michael Hudson]

Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> writes:

> Something thus holds a reference to the instance, even if it's deleted from
> the local namespace of test1(), my question is what it might be? 

Something starting from sys.last_traceback, I'd think.

> I'm using Python as an extension language, and I call the method using
> PyObject_CallObject(), if an exception is raised in the function, nothing
> frees up the object instance (because of the extra reference).

It will get freed up eventually (ie. when the next exception gets
raised).  Or you could assign None to sys.last_traceback, or "del"
that (I'm not sure what best practice is here).

Cheers,
M.

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