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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-07-30 17:59:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-07-30 17:59:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 796564c27b8f2e32b9fbc034bbdda75f9507ca43 (patch) | |
| tree | 52db4985f7fe10db48703103a156ff3fd2011d8d /Doc/reference | |
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Issue #18112: PEP 442 implementation (safe object finalization).
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 1a48c1f..95028c2 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1120,12 +1120,10 @@ Basic customization ``sys.last_traceback`` keeps the stack frame alive). The first situation can only be remedied by explicitly breaking the cycles; the latter two situations can be resolved by storing ``None`` in ``sys.last_traceback``. - Circular references which are garbage are detected when the option cycle - detector is enabled (it's on by default), but can only be cleaned up if - there are no Python- level :meth:`__del__` methods involved. Refer to the - documentation for the :mod:`gc` module for more information about how - :meth:`__del__` methods are handled by the cycle detector, particularly - the description of the ``garbage`` value. + Circular references which are garbage are detected and cleaned up when + the cyclic garbage collector is enabled (it's on by default). Refer to the + documentation for the :mod:`gc` module for more information about this + topic. .. warning:: |