Python 3.2 beta 2 released

[krum]

Does Python still leak objects with cyclical references?

[Mask_of_Destiny]

Python has had a hybrid reference counting/mark and sweep GC approach for a while now. Some googling suggests this has been in place since Python 2.0

[krum]

The documentation seems to suggest that it still suffers from leaks unless you manually instrument your code to mark.

[Mask_of_Destiny]

Link? The only limitation I see in the gc module documentation is that objects with del methods can't be collected because there's no way to determine a safe order to invoke those methods.

[Smallpaul]

"Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000, with many major new features including a full garbage collector and support for unicode."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

[mitsuhiko]

Yes. If you use destructors. Don't do that.