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[Python-Dev] reference leaks, __del__, and annotations

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 19:14:36 CEST 2006 
[Phillip J. Eby]
> ...
> As Tim suggested, it'd be better to have the code be generator-specific, at
> least for now.  That had actually been my original plan, to make it
> generator-specific, but I was afraid of breaking encapsulation in the
> garbage collector by having it know about generators.

It sucks in a way, but so would adding yet another new slot just for
(at present, and possibly forever) making gc and generators play nicer
together.  "Practicality beats purity" here.

> But now that Uncle Timmy has blessed the approach, I'll go back and add it in.
> (On Monday, unless somebody gets to it before me.)

It won't be me:  I wasn't even able to make enough time to understand
the new generator features at the Python level, let alone the
implementation.  At PyCon, when Guido showed his slide with a new
yield-as-expression example, for the rest of his talk I was wondering
what the heck the example meant <0.3 wink>.
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