[Python-Dev] SVN rev. 85392 broke module handling in py3k (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Oct 22 17:06:10 CEST 2010

2010/10/22 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:41:09 -0500 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2010/10/22  <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com>: > Instances of classes don't refer to the module their class is defined in. >  It seems more likely that the reason the module is garbage collected is > that there really is nothing which refers to it anymore.

Indeed, this is really a Python bug, but there's no good way to deal with it unless dictionaries can know they are module globals. How about making functions keep a reference to the module they're defined in? Is there any reason we shouldn't do that?

I thought of that, too. It wouldn't be trivial to implement, though, and wouldn't solve the problem of clearing globals to avoid references cycles.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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