On Nov 8, 8:42 am, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 7, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Aaron Brady wrote: > > > Therefore objects don't need names to exist. Having a name is > > sufficient but not necessary to exist. Being in a container is > > neither necessary -nor- sufficient. > > What do you mean? Being in a container isn't necessary, but it > certainly is sufficient. > > Having ANY references to it is both necessary and sufficient to > exist. And isn't that the easiest way to say it?
No, you forgot about cyclically-linked garbage, which Python implementations are allowed to, but not required to, collect. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list