On 06/19/2017 08:06 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Reference counting is a valid garbage collecting mechanism, therefore Python is
also a GC language.
Garbage collection is usually thought of as a way to remove responsibility for
tracking of live data from the user.
Reference counting doesn't do that.
Caveat: I'm not a CS major.
Question: In the same way that Object Orientation is usually thought of as data
hiding?
Comment: Except in rare cases (e.g. messing with __del__), the Python user does not have to think about nor manage live
data, so reference counting seems to meet that requirement. Programming at the C level is not working in Python, and
many Python niceties simply don't exist there.
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