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17 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Martin v. Löwis 0f9679d2b0 Mention that DEBUG_LEAK includes DEBUG_SAVEALL. Fixes #1170460.
Will backport to 2.4.
2005-03-28 15:29:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 17a7924667 SF bug #1091740: garbage collector still documented as optional 2005-01-07 00:49:17 +00:00
Armin Rigo 3be6d5d320 Documented gc.get_referrers() as dangerous.
SF bug 793822
2003-10-28 12:10:38 +00:00
Fred Drake de7ad2caac Markup fix. 2003-04-08 17:37:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 730f5535ba s/referrents/referents/g. Gotta love that referrers remains rife with rs. 2003-04-08 17:17:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 0f81ab6d88 Finished implementing gc.get_referrents(): dealt with error and end
cases, wrote docs, added a test.
2003-04-08 16:39:48 +00:00
Fred Drake e4523c46b9 Document gc.get_objects().
Closes SF bug #578308.
2002-07-10 19:21:07 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef180dc3d0 Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects.
Fixes #505453.
2002-01-26 20:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake dda7dcb3f7 Add a missing "cycle". 2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 560da62fc7 Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815. 2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
Tim Peters af0a883041 Relatively large expansion of the docs for gc.garbage. 2001-11-18 04:51:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 169ded0d68 Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC.
Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer b2c2c9e977 - update Neil's email address 2000-10-04 16:34:09 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 544de1effb - Add DEBUG_SAVEALL option. When enabled all garbage objects found by the
collector will be saved in gc.garbage.  This is useful for debugging a
  program that creates reference cycles.

- Fix else statements in gcmodule.c to conform to Python coding standards.
2000-09-22 15:22:38 +00:00
Fred Drake e544191397 Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
of the chapter.

Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Vladimir Marangozov f9d20c3786 Neil Schemenauer: GC enable(), disable(), isenabled() interface.
Small stylistic changes by VM:
- is_enabled() -> isenabled()
- static ... Py_<func> -> static ... gc_<func>
2000-08-06 22:45:31 +00:00
Fred Drake bdcf91fda0 Documentation for the gc module. Text from Neil Schemenauer
<nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>, markup & minor revisions from Fred
Drake.
2000-07-12 04:22:53 +00:00