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Author loewis
Recipients eli.bendersky, flox, jcea, loewis
Date 2012-03-17.10:25:29
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As a matter of principle, garbage collection in Python should *always* work, for all types, except for the one documented exception (cycles involving __del__). Failure of a type to properly garbage collect should be considered as serious as an interpreter crash; I hence propose this issue as release blocker.

In addition, failure to support tp_traverse means that gc.get_referents doesn't work for the type, which is an inconvenience even in regular (non-cyclic) usage.
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2012-03-17 10:25:30loewissetrecipients: + loewis, jcea, eli.bendersky, flox
2012-03-17 10:25:30loewissetmessageid: <1331979930.64.0.709786418744.issue14065@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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