On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 5:02:17 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > Here's one example: reference cycles. When do they get detected? > Taking a really simple situation: > > class Foo: > def __init__(self): > self.self = self
*shudders* Can you provide a real world example in which you need an object which circularly references _itself_? This looks like a highly contrived example used to (1) merely win the argument, and (2) Bump fib() up one position from it's current position as "the worst introductory example of how to write a function in the history of programming tutorials" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list