Daniel Stutzbach <stutzb...@google.com> added the comment: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jim Jewett <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> __del__ methods do run, even if an object was collected by the cycle > detector. And they can't do any harm that couldn't also be done by a C > finalizer. > No, if an object with a __del__ method is part of a cycle, it is not collected. The objects get appended to gc.garbage instead. See: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/gc.html#gc.garbage ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9141> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
