[Thomas Wouters] ... > not to mention avoiding finalizers on other builtin objects. (None seem to > have > them at the moment, they all do their stuff in tp_dealloc,
Right, generators are the only exception now (and there were no exceptions before 2.5). > which I guess doesn't allow objects to reincarnate themselves.) This is the actual rule: tp_dealloc must not do anything that could confuse cyclic gc <0.5 wink>. I'm afraid that's the best writeup there is. If you have a few spare weeks, try to figure out exactly why subtype_dealloc() does what it does ;-) > ... > I'll see about fixing the Python code to avoid or explicitly break the > cycles. Or giving gc more smarts about generators specifically (see Phillip's msg). > Maybe we can patch regrtest.py to take into account uncollectable > cycles, so that it could report them separately from refleaks. I'm going to > think about all this first, though. > > Hrrm-hrrm'ly y'rs, > -- > Hi! I'm a finalizer virus! copy me into your tp_del slot to help me spread! LOL! Nice variation. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
