Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment:
FWIW, the example pasted in the bug was the smallest one he could come up
with. in reality we were never calling .__del__() explicitly. We ran into
the problem due to a __del__ method triggering a __getattr__ call and the
__getattr__ ending up in infinite recursion because an attribute it accessed
internally wasn't defined. That particular bug was fixable by fixing the
__getattr__ to not depend on any instance attributes but it is still a
problem in Python for the interpreter to get into an infinite loop calling
the destructor in that case...
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20196/unnamed
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FWIW, the example pasted in the bug was the smallest one he could come up with.
 in reality we were never calling .__del__() explicitly. We ran into the
problem due to a __del__ method triggering a __getattr__ call and the
__getattr__ ending up in infinite recursion because an attribute it accessed
internally wasn't defined. Â That particular bug was fixable by fixing the
__getattr__ to not depend on any instance attributes but it is still a problem
in Python for the interpreter to get into an infinite loop calling the
destructor in that case...<div>
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