Gerhard Häring wrote: > 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?
The reference keeping the classes alive is probably object.__subclasses__(): >>> class A(object): pass ... >>> sum(1 for c in object.__subclasses__() if c.__name__ == "A") 1 >>> class A(object): pass ... >>> sum(1 for c in object.__subclasses__() if c.__name__ == "A") 2 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
