[Python-Dev] reference leaks, del, and annotations (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 04:52:19 CEST 2006

[various people debating how to steal a bit from an existing PyObject member]

Let's stop this. It's a "bike shed" argument: even if we had 1000 spare bits, it wouldn't do any good. Having a bit to record whether an object has been finalized doesn't solve any problem that's been raised recently (it doesn't cure any problems with resurrection, for example). Even if we wanted it just to support a slow, dubious way to collect trash cycles containing objects with del methods, gcmodule.c would need major rewriting to make that happen. If someone is interested enough to do that, fine, but it sure ain't me ;-)

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