[issue17800] Add gc.needs_finalizing() to check if an object needs finalising

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[issue17800] Add gc.needs_finalizing() to check if an object needs finalising

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[issue17800] Add gc.needs_finalizing() to check if an object needs finalising

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Antoine came up with a scheme (see issue 17807) that should eliminate the tp_del implementation from generator objects by moving the cleanup code to the frame deallocation. This will restore Guido's original assumption that types implemented in C won't need to

[issue17800] Add gc.needs_finalizing() to check if an object needs finalising

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Yeah, I've figured out that rather than exposing __del__ if tp_del is populated, or generalising the generator special case, the simplest way to make this info accessible is to be able to ask the *garbage collector* if it thinks an object needs finalising. That