Comment by guappa
1 day ago
How does this relate to the claim of the parent comment that cyclic structures are never freed in python (which is false, btw)?
1 day ago
How does this relate to the claim of the parent comment that cyclic structures are never freed in python (which is false, btw)?
When I replied, the only thing the comment said was “yeah no.” I was agreeing that __del__ is fraught with peril.
Reading: cyclic GC, yes, the section I linked explicitly discusses that problem, and how it’s solved.
this is not what I claim, BTW.