[Python-Dev] Garbage collecting closures (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:59:29 -0700

Does this bug look familiar to anyone?

import gc

def bar(a): def foo(): return None x = a foo()

class C:pass a = C()

for i in range(20): print len(gc.get_referrers(a)) x = bar(a)

On my Python, it just counts up. "a" gets more and more referrers and they are "cell" objects. If it is unknown, I'll submit a bug report unless someone fixes it before I get to it. ;)

Paul Prescod