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| author | Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> | 2024-08-27 11:37:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-08-27 11:37:56 (GMT) |
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gh-120426: Reword the glossary term "immortal" (GH-123191)
Reword the glossary term "immortal", mark it as an implementation detail
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 281dde3..d9f9392 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -590,14 +590,12 @@ Glossary which ships with the standard distribution of Python. immortal - If an object is immortal, its reference count is never modified, and - therefore it is never deallocated. + *Immortal objects* are a CPython implementation detail introduced + in :pep:`683`. - Built-in strings and singletons are immortal objects. For example, - :const:`True` and :const:`None` singletons are immortal. - - See `PEP 683 – Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount - <https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/>`_ for more information. + If an object is immortal, its :term:`reference count` is never modified, + and therefore it is never deallocated while the interpreter is running. + For example, :const:`True` and :const:`None` are immortal in CPython. immutable An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and |