Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Fri Oct 24 04:11:07 EDT 2003

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>         Right... all along until CPython introduces a more elaborate
> gc scheme.
> 
>         Note that reference-counting has problems with cyclic
> references; probably not something that will bite you in the case of
> open files, but definitely a problem you need to be aware of.

Python uses a generational garbage collector in addition to reference
counting.

Cheers,
Brian

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