On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 18:19, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, it wouldn't - the use of the value as a return value counts as a > reference. It's exactly the same as any other function that returns a > brand-new value.
So the memory of that object will never free... since there's a reference that can't be deleted, until the current scope is not finished. This in practice will break `del variable` _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GJ4WXGWV2IO4WF2MYD3UYDGQWZM4GVNS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
