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| author | scoder <stefan_ml@behnel.de> | 2021-04-28 16:12:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-28 16:12:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 3cc481b9de43c234889c8010e7da3af7c0f42319 (patch) | |
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bpo-28254: Add a C-API for controlling the GC state (GH-25687)
Add new C-API functions to control the state of the garbage collector:
PyGC_Enable(), PyGC_Disable(), PyGC_IsEnabled(),
corresponding to the functions in the gc module.
Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst index 2d8bb28..37c1b8a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst @@ -1697,6 +1697,13 @@ New Features singleton or the ``False`` singleton. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`43753`.) +* Add new functions to quickly control the garbage collector from C code: + :c:func:`PyGC_Enable()`, + :c:func:`PyGC_Disable()`, + :c:func:`PyGC_IsEnabled()`. + These functions allow to activate, deactivate and query the state of the garbage collector from C code without + having to import the :mod:`gc` module. + Porting to Python 3.10 ---------------------- |