Hi Vinay, > Python uses reference counting with a cycle detector, but the > detector's behaviour is different if there are finalizers (__del__) - > see > > http://www.python.org/doc/ext/refcounts.html >
Thank you for the link, that certainly explains a great deal. So, am I right to assume that python will still handle its garbage disposal if I implement __del__(), it just handles circular references in a slightly different way, but to the same effect. Right? Cheers, Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
