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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-03-23 17:42:09 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-03-23 17:42:09 (GMT)
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Strengthen the constraints on calling PyObject_GC_Fini().
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@@ -5029,6 +5029,11 @@ pair of rules:
objects. The deallocator (\member{tp_dealloc} handler) should call
this for the object before any of the fields used by the
\member{tp_traverse} handler become invalid.
+
+ \strong{Note:} Any container which may be referenced from another
+ object reachable by the collector must itself be tracked by the
+ collector, so it is generally not safe to call this function
+ anywhere but in the object's deallocator.
\end{cfuncdesc}
The \member{tp_traverse} handler accepts a function parameter of this