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

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 19:22:05 CEST 2008

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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? No, but it is an intriguing thought nevertheless. The module clearing causes nothing but trouble...

Already gone in python-safethread. Then again, so is del. ;) (Replaced with finalize)

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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