Yury Selivanov added the comment: > Setting it to NULL is one option -- silently ignoring the assignment (leaving whatever was there) might also be good? In 90% of the cases it would be the same thing right?
But leaving the old __context__ there will completely mask the bug... And as for pure python code -- do you agree we better raise a TypeError if a cycle is about to be introduced? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25782> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com