stw <sil...@googlemail.com> added the comment: > So the tuple is linked-in to the garbage collection list before its > contents are constructed?
> It is. It typically happens when you do (in C code): Ok, thanks. I couldn't see how a tuple could be created before its contents in python code, but it is clearly possible in C. I have written up some documentation on how untracking is handled in the gc - please see the attached patch. It summarises our discussion and some of the posts in issue #4688. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25711/untracking_docs.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14775> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
