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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-04-08 16:39:48 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-04-08 16:39:48 (GMT)
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Finished implementing gc.get_referrents(): dealt with error and end
cases, wrote docs, added a test.
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@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
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+- New function gc.get_referrents(obj) returns a list of objects
+ directly referenced by obj. In effect, it exposes what the object's
+ tp_traverse slot does, and can be helpful when debugging memory
+ leaks.
+
- The iconv module has been removed from this release.
- The platform-independent routines for packing floats in IEEE formats