Python vs Java garbage collection?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> It's not that there are hundreds of alternative Python implementations
> out there. There are precisely two implementations, and that's why the
> language definition makes explicitly no guarantee as to when the
> finalizers are called.

And that's precisely why you should not rely on an such behavior in a
portable application.

> If you were just to use what the language
> definition guarantees you, you could not write a single useful
> application.

Huh?  Presuming by "language definition" you mean the documentation
available at python.org, I don't see how this comment makes sense.

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