[Python-ideas] Why not break cycles with one del? (original) (raw)
Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Mon Sep 13 22:36:35 CEST 2010
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On 13 September 2010 20:22, Benjamin <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
Tim Peters <tim.peters at ...> writes: > Of course it doesn't have to be that way. Nobody cared enough yet > to add a pile of new code to special-case cycles with a single > del.
And hopefully no one will. That would be very brittle. More brittle than what PyPy, IronPython (and presumably) jython do? (Which is make cycles collectable by arbitrarily breaking them IIUC.)
Michael
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