instead of looping. Smaller and clearer. Faster, too, when we're not
appending to gc.garbage: gc_list_merge() takes constant time, regardless
of the lists' sizes.
append_objects(): Moved up to live with the other list manipulation
utilities.
externally unreachable objects with finalizers, and externally unreachable
objects without finalizers reachable from such objects. This allows us
to call has_finalizer() at most once per object, and so limit the pain of
nasty getattr hooks. This fixes the failing "boom 2" example Jeremy
posted (a non-printing variant of which is now part of test_gc), via never
triggering the nasty part of its __getattr__ method.
to special-case classic classes, or to worry about refcounts;
has_finalizer() deleted the current object iff the first entry in
the unreachable list has changed. I don't believe it was correct
to check for ob_refcnt == 1, either: the dealloc routine would get
called by Py_DECREF then, but there's nothing to stop the dealloc
routine from ressurecting the object, and then gc would remain at
the head of the unreachable list despite that its refcount temporarily
fell to 0 (and that would lead to an infinite loop in move_finalizers()).
I'm still worried about has_finalizer() resurrecting other objects
in the unreachable list: what's to stop them from getting collected?
delstr from initgc() into collect(). initgc() isn't called unless the
user explicitly imports gc, so can be used only for initialization of
user-visible module features; delstr needs to be initialized for proper
internal operation, whether or not gc is explicitly imported.
Bugfix candidate? I don't know whether the new bug was backported to
2.2 already.
the Standard_Suite, but various other suites do expect it (the Finder
implements get() without declaring it itself). It is probably another
case of OSA magic. Adding them to the global base class.
within a certain context. Give them an _Prop_ prefix, so they don't
accidentally obscure an element from another suite (as happened with
the Finder). Comparisons I'm not sure about, so I left them as global
names.
Also got rid of the lists if declarations, they serve no useful purpose.
you to say something like "talker.count(want=Address_Book.people)" in
stead of having to manually create the aetypes.Type(Address_Book.people.want)
OSA type.
Tim Peters
Anthony Baxter
Raymond Hettinger
Jeremy Hylton
Greg Ward
Martin v. Löwis
Walter Dörwald
Barry Warsaw
Jack Jansen
Fred Drake
Neal Norwitz