Generator inside a class prevent __del__ ??

[Rob Nikander]

Mark Day wrote:
> still isn't called.  There must still be a reference to the object.  My
> guess is that the generator (directly or indirectly) is referencing the
> object, creating a self referential loop.
> 

Python has a garbage collector that will try to find these objects with 
cyclic references.

from test import *
 >>> a = toto()
init
 >>> a = None
 >>> import gc
 >>> gc.garbage
[]
 >>> gc.collect()
4
 >>> gc.garbage
[<test.toto instance at 0x81cb78c>]
 >>>

I checked out the documentation for that gc.garbage list and it says 
that the collector can't free objects in cycles if the cyles have 
objects that have __del__ methods.  So it puts them in this list.

I wonder what other garbage collectors do in this situation?  Anyone 
know?  Java?

Rob