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On 7/10/06, Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@ewtllc.com> wrote:
Right. That is on the list of crashers I am ignoring.
And I am trying to make sure all the fixes are not superfluous but fix actual issues in the code and behaviour of Python.
-Brett
Brett Cannon wrote:
> As I am sure some have noticed, as part of my dissertation I have been
> trying to fix the various crashers.
Nice project.
One quick thought: Any crasher that relies on
gc.get_referrers() should
not be considered a bug.
Right. That is on the list of crashers I am ignoring.
The codebase should not be convoluted,
complexified, obfucated, altered, touched, or slowed down just prevent
perverse, sadistic safe-cracking using this tool. The docs are clear on
this subject:
"Care must be taken when using objeccts returned by get_referrers()
becasue some of them could still be under construction and hence in a
temporarily invalid state. Avoid using get_referrers() for any purpose
other than debugging."
And I am trying to make sure all the fixes are not superfluous but fix actual issues in the code and behaviour of Python.
-Brett