On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 09:54 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > I guess the above behaviour makes sense, but it touches upon something > I've never been quite certain about: if a gobject (or some kind of Gtk > object) has all its references dropped but there are still signal > handlers connected, does gobject/gtk go ahead and destroy the object > anyway?
The way to think of this is that signals don't add strong refs. And as a general rule, I think you should structure your application/scripts to have a global "app" object (using GApplication, or it could just be a python dict or something), and hook everything else off that. The one special case unfortunately is GtkWindow - GTK itself holds strong refs to all windows unless they're explicitly destroyed. That special case unfortunately confuses a lot of people and muddles the conceptual clarity of the system. _______________________________________________ python-hackers-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/python-hackers-list
