weakrefs and avoiding bad gc cycles
Martin Pool
mbp at canonical.com
Mon Jun 13 21:57:46 UTC 2011
I had a think about this (bug 791612) last night. In short, I am
inclined to just remove all the __del__ methods, rather than letting
them be conditionally enabled by a flag. Looking back they seem to
have caused a fair number of intermittent failures, and in my
experience not caught many serious bugs. When we want to for instance
assert that something is definitely closed before the end of a test,
there are better deterministic ways to do it without involving gc.
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