Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r77708:ed28d1a8474c Date: 2015-05-30 15:26 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/ed28d1a8474c/
Log: Issue 2047: add a note diff --git a/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst b/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst --- a/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/cpython_differences.rst @@ -190,6 +190,11 @@ just make sure there is a ``__del__`` method in the class to start with (even containing only ``pass``; replacing or overriding it later works fine). +Last note: CPython tries to do a ``gc.collect()`` automatically when the +program finishes; not PyPy. (It is possible in both CPython and PyPy to +design a case where several ``gc.collect()`` are needed before all objects +die. This makes CPython's approach only work "most of the time" anyway.) + Subclasses of built-in types ---------------------------- _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
