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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/doctest.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/doctest.py b/Lib/doctest.py index fb0334c..b59a68a 100644 --- a/Lib/doctest.py +++ b/Lib/doctest.py @@ -531,8 +531,6 @@ def _run_examples_inner(out, fakeout, examples, globs, verbose, name): # Run list of examples, in a shallow copy of context (dict) globs. # Return (#failures, #tries). -# CAUTION: globs is cleared before returning. This is to help break -# cycles that may have been created by the examples. def _run_examples(examples, globs, verbose, name): import sys @@ -549,7 +547,9 @@ def _run_examples(examples, globs, verbose, name): # generator tests that raise exceptions, because a named generator- # iterator gets an entry in globs, and the generator-iterator # object's frame's traceback info points back to globs. This is - # easy to break just by clearing the namespace. + # easy to break just by clearing the namespace. This can also + # help to break other kinds of cycles, and even for cycles that + # gc can break itself it's better to break them ASAP. globs.clear() return x |