[Python-Dev] reference leaks, del, and annotations (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Apr 4 08:48:38 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

Michael Hudson wrote:

And if we want to have a version of del that can't reference 'self', we have it already: weakrefs with callbacks. Does that actually work at the moment? Last I heard, there was some issue with gc and weakref callbacks as well. Has that been resolved?

Talk about FUD. Yes, it works, as far as I know.

Cheers, mwh

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