On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > The concept is that the GC tracks (in that sense; everything in > CPython is refcounted, but that's not what these functions look at) > anything that could be a part of a reference cycle. That's all it > concerns itself with, so something that can't have references to > arbitrary objects can't possibly be worth tracking. Interestingly, a > tuple of integers is tracked: > >>>> a=1,2,3 >>>> gc.is_tracked(a) > True > > So not all optimizations are done that could be done.
Or is it? >>> a = 1,2,3 >>> gc.is_tracked(a) True >>> gc.collect() 0 >>> gc.is_tracked(a) False -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
