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New submission from Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr:
I haven't verified this through any test (actually I'm wondering how to
deterministically reproduce it), but logically there are cases where
gc.collect() (and, similarly, PyGC_Collect()) won't work as advertised.
Specifically, when the GC is
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
It should be possible to trigger this by invoking gc.collect in an
__del__ implementation of an object that is attached to a cycle.
However, I don't think this is an important issue; +0 for resolving this
by documenting the status quo
