Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
Dan, your bug report is pretty much incoherent ;-) This standard Stack Overflow advice applies here too: https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve Guessing your complaint is that: sys.getrefcount(itertools.repeat) keeps increasing by 1 across calls to `leaks()`, then as Eric said it will drop back to its original value after a `gc.collect()` call. Steven, best I can tell weakrefs have nothing to do with this. The refcount on itertools.repeat increases if weakref.ref(ns['f']), is deleted. It's a simple reference cycle. That is ns['f'].__globals__ is ns is True, so `ns` can't be collected via reference counting, and so `ns` also holds a reference to the irrelevantly renamed `itertools.repeat` too until cyclic gc can detect the trash cycle. Dan, if that's _not_ what you're complaining about, please follow the advice at the top and add a focused, minimal example of what you are talking about. In the meantime, I'm closing this as not-a-bug. ---------- nosy: +tim.peters resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33814> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
