Paul Rubin wrote: > "Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The idea is to garbage collect the object as soon as possible, and this > > may be sooner than when dosomestuff returns. > > If it's a parameter to dosomestuff, then there's still a reference > until dosomestuff returns. Simply getting rid of the name only frees > a dictionary entry.
But dosomestuff can get rid of its reference before it returns (perhaps it has a lot more to do before it returns and so you would want to garbage collect the parameter object as soon as possible). Amir -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
