Gerhard Häring schrieb: > import sys > > def foo(): > class C(object): > pass > > foo() > print ">>", sys.gettotalrefcount() > foo() > print ">>", sys.gettotalrefcount() > foo() > print ">>", sys.gettotalrefcount() > > >> 21366 > >> 21387 > >> 21408 > [9779 refs] > > Both Python 2.4 and 2.5 don't clean up properly here. Why is this? > Aren't classes supposed to be garbage-collected? > > -- Gerhard
Replace "foo()" with "foo(); gc.collect()" and the refcounts are stable. Tested the python 2.6 from trunk. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
