On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 6:52:55 AM UTC-5, Simon King wrote: > > - If there is a reference cycle involving one instance with a __del__ > method, then Python would not apply garbage collection to that cycle. >
Python will garbage collect the cycle by not calling __del__ on some of the cycle members. The fun source of the bugs that your probably remember is that Cython __dealloc__ is always called, even in cycles, but on partly-deconstructed Python objects... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.