> Additionally, there is another problem: If the cycle is not > temporarily revived, and you call __del__ manually, it may break the > cycle by removing the references. > Thus, objects in the cycle will go down to refcount=0 during your > attempt to call __del__'s on the objects in the cycle. > The only sane thing is to temporarily revive the entire cycle so you > can safely call __del__'s on it. Then, you might want to disable the > normal __del__ calling that occurs as part of the later destruction of > the cycle.
I still don't understand what "revive the cycle" means. You will need to incref the object for which you call __del__, that's all. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
