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teraflop on Sept 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Am Worried About The Future Of Python

One nitpick:

> lack of real GC for data structures with cycles

This has not been true since (AFAIK) Python 2.0, which was released 12 years ago.

cmccabe on Sept 25, 2012 [–]

> > lack of real GC for data structures with cycles > This has not been true since (AFAIK) Python 2.0, > which was released 12 years ago.

Sorta.

It seems that CPython still can't garbage collect objects in cycles if those objects have a __del__ method.

See http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2008/07/07/python-destructor-...

Or see gc.garbage, from http://docs.python.org/release/2.7.3/library/gc.html

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