https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6754566a51a5706e8c9da0094b892113311ba20c
commit: 6754566a51a5706e8c9da0094b892113311ba20c
branch: main
author: Petr Viktorin <[email protected]>
committer: encukou <[email protected]>
date: 2024-08-27T13:37:56+02:00
summary:
gh-120426: Reword the glossary term "immortal" (GH-123191)
Reword the glossary term "immortal", mark it as an implementation detail
files:
M Doc/glossary.rst
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index 281dde30dc78ed..d9f9392c327f5c 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -590,14 +590,12 @@ Glossary
which ships with the standard distribution of Python.
immortal
- If an object is immortal, its reference count is never modified, and
- therefore it is never deallocated.
+ *Immortal objects* are a CPython implementation detail introduced
+ in :pep:`683`.
- Built-in strings and singletons are immortal objects. For example,
- :const:`True` and :const:`None` singletons are immortal.
-
- See `PEP 683 – Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount
- <https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/>`_ for more information.
+ If an object is immortal, its :term:`reference count` is never modified,
+ and therefore it is never deallocated while the interpreter is running.
+ For example, :const:`True` and :const:`None` are immortal in CPython.
immutable
An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers,
strings and
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