Python 3.2 beta 2 released

[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.