[Python-Dev] Cycle collection enhancement idea (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jun 29 02:39:11 CEST 2008


Nick Coghlan wrote:

It's a fact of Python development: del methods cannot safely reference module globals, because those globals may be gone by the time that method is invoked.

Speaking of this, has there been any more thought given to the idea of dropping the module clearing and just relying on cyclic GC?

-- Greg



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