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...



 

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