On Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:44:59 UTC, Rob Gaddi wrote: > On 03/01/2018 02:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > > On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 6:44:39 PM UTC+13, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> DOM trees are a classic example (see the various DOM modules in the > >> Python stdlib). Non-leaf nodes have a list of child nodes, child nodes > >> have pointers back upwards to their parent, and each child node has > >> pointers to its left and right siblings if they exist. It's all very > >> circular. > > > > This is why you have weak refs. > > > But making sure that the failure to use weakrefs doesn't memory leak the > program into the pavement is why you have background garbage collection > with intelligent cyclical reference breaking.
That is the worst justification for gc I have seen yet, and also the most truthful. gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_LEAK) is your friend my friends. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
