On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2010/9/7 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: >> I've raised an RFE (http://bugs.python.org/issue9789) to point out >> that the need for that GC collect call in there to make the test >> portable to other implementations is rather ugly > > Why? You're testing garbage collection, so you should call garbage collection.
Having that test *as well* as a specific release test (to check implicit as well as explicit release) is a different story (we do that for generators, files and assorted other things). Having forced GC invocation be the only way to do explicit release is the part I found ugly. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
