Jim Jewett <jimjjew...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Daniel Stutzbach <stutzb...@google.com> added the comment:
>> __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 They can still be collected if there is only one object with a __del__ method in the cycle. (Whether the code actually does that, it appears not to at the moment, and I won't swear by by own memory of 2.3 era code.) ---------- _______________________________________ 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
