Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2018 13:38:03 UTC+1 schrieb Volker Braun: > > 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. >
Has that changed? I recall that in my early days in Sage (when I created the first version of my group cohomology package) I had to remove some __del__ method (or change it into a __dealloc__ method), since otherwise some reference cycles haven't been collected at all. Best regards, Simon -- 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.
