On Dec 24, 11:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > En Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:18:55 -0200, Kottiyath <n.kottiy...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > >> The other thing to remember is that because the 'registry' contains > >> references to the instances, they won't be garbage collected. > > > Is there any other way out in this case? > > I have factory methods - and I have to loop over them - sort of Chain > > of Responsibility pattern. > > Having a registry inside the class instance and looping through them > > was the only clean thing I could think of. > > I understand that garbage collection would be an issue - but is there > > any way out? > > You may keep all that structures - just use weak references (see the > weakref module). > There isn't a WeakList nor WeakSet out-of-the-box but you may use a > WeakKeyDictionary (set the value to anything, None by example). > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
Thank you very much, Gabriel. I am very thankful to everyone. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
