Re: how to "free" an object/var ?


"John Nagle" <nagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| If your data structure has no backlinks, it will go away
| as soon as the last reference to it disappears.
| In Python, garbage collection is mostly a backup to
| the reference counting system.

These both are true of the CPython implementation (current and known
future, at least) but not of other implementations and not of the language
itself.

The same comment applies to some other posts in this thread. GC, if any,
is implementation defined.

tjr



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