[issue4924] gc.collect() won't always collect as expected

2011-06-26 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4924] gc.collect() won't always collect as expected

2011-06-26 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue4924] gc.collect() won't always collect as expected

2009-01-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: It should be possible to trigger this by invoking gc.collect in an __del__ implementation of an object that is attached to a cycle. However, I don't think this is an important issue; +0 for resolving this by documenting the status quo (instead of making the im

[issue4924] gc.collect() won't always collect as expected

2009-01-12 Thread Antoine Pitrou
New submission from Antoine Pitrou : I haven't verified this through any test (actually I'm wondering how to deterministically reproduce it), but logically there are cases where gc.collect() (and, similarly, PyGC_Collect()) won't work as advertised. Specifically, when the GC is asked to collect