2010/10/22 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:41:09 -0500 > Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: >> 2010/10/22 <exar...@twistedmatrix.com>: >> > Instances of classes don't refer to the module their class is defined in. >> > It seems more likely that the reason the module is garbage collected is >> > that there really is nothing which refers to it anymore. >> >> Indeed, this is really a Python bug, but there's no good way to deal >> with it unless dictionaries can know they are module globals. > > How about making functions keep a reference to the module they're > defined in? Is there any reason we shouldn't do that?
I thought of that, too. It wouldn't be trivial to implement, though, and wouldn't solve the problem of clearing globals to avoid references cycles. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
