Florent Xicluna <florent.xicl...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Could you explain the changes to the unittest?
The reference to "self" in the hooks were preventing the GC of the test case, as far as I understand, because it creates a cycle. When using weak references, there's no more dead cycles. It is my own explanation, maybe it's not exactly what happens. For the sys.traceback, I could not explain it better than the FAQ: http://docs.python.org/faq/design.html#how-does-python-manage-memory I may add a small comment in test_replication to explain the usage of weakref. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7808> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
