On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Rick Johnson > <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 5:02:17 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> Here's one example: reference cycles. When do they get detected? >>> Taking a really simple situation: >>> >>> class Foo: >>> def __init__(self): >>> self.self = self >> >> *shudders* >> >> Can you provide a real world example in which you need an >> object which circularly references _itself_? This looks like >> a highly contrived example used to (1) merely win the >> argument, and (2) Bump fib() up one position from it's >> current position as "the worst introductory example of how >> to write a function in the history of programming tutorials" > > Not off hand, but I can provide an EXTREMELY real-world example of a > fairly tight loop: exceptions. An exception has a reference to the > local variables it came from, and those locals may well include the > exception itself: > > try: > 1/0 > except Exception as e: > print(e) > > The ZeroDivisionError has a reference to the locals, and 'e' in the > locals refers to that very exception object.
The problem with this example of course is that the variable 'e' is scoped to the except block and automatically del'ed when it exits. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
