At 06:09 PM 5/19/2005 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: >Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > - When a generator is GC'ed, its close() method is called (which is a > > no-op if it is already closed). > >Does this mean that all generators will be ineligible >for cyclic garbage collection (since they implicitly >have something equivalent to a __del__ method)?
No, since it's implemented in C. (The C equivalent to __del__ does not interfere with cyclic GC.) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
