Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > There is a cycle involving the class object, but I don’t think there is a > cycle involving the instance objects this time.
It is. >>> a = A() >>> a.__class__.__del__.__globals__['a'] <__main__.A object at 0xb702230c> And all objects referenced from user class or module level instance of user class are in a cycle. This problem can cause issues such as issue17852. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23720> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com