In article <mailman.1967.1281549328.1673.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >An object will be available for garbage collection when nothing refers >to it either directly or indirectly. If it's unreferenced then it will >go away.
This isn't actually garbage collection as most people think of it. Refcounting semantics mean that objects get reaped as soon as nothing points at them. OTOH, CPython does also have garbage collection to back up refcounting so that when you have unreferenced object cycles they don't stay around. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "...if I were on life-support, I'd rather have it run by a Gameboy than a Windows box." --Cliff Wells -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
