On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it any different if you create a deliberate reference loop and then > stuff it into some module somewhere? That would force it to be kept > until interpreter shutdown, and then a cyclic garbage collection after > that, which quite probably would be never run. A stupid trick, > perhaps, but it might work; I tested it with a dummy class with a > __del__ method and it wasn't called. Putting it into some other module > may not be necessary, but I don't know what happens with the > interactive interpreter and what gets freed up when.
__del__ is never called for cyclic references. -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
