"John Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | If your data structure has no backlinks, it will go away | as soon as the last reference to it disappears. | In Python, garbage collection is mostly a backup to | the reference counting system.
These both are true of the CPython implementation (current and known future, at least) but not of other implementations and not of the language itself. The same comment applies to some other posts in this thread. GC, if any, is implementation defined. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
