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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jun 30 02:43:28 CEST 2008

Since it's already possible for del-containing cycles to survive interpreter shutdown, I don't see that this issue ought to be a showstopper for elimination of module clearing.

Also, it seems to me that the kind of cycles module clearing is designed to break, i.e. those between classes, functions and the module dict, are unlikely to contain objects with _del methods, so there wouldn't be much of a problem in practice.

-- Greg

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