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Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2015-05-02 22:29 -0600
Subject Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself?
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On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> So it sounds like you have to request such a mark-and-sweep from
> the gc module.

You *can* request it. But as long as it hasn't been explicitly
disabled (by calling gc.disable()), the mark-and-sweep garbage
collection will also run automatically -- just not necessarily
immediately.

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Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2015-05-02 13:02 -0700
  Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-05-02 15:17 -0500
    Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2015-05-02 14:07 -0700
    Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-02 23:06 +0200
      Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-05-03 00:07 +0100
      Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-05-02 20:57 -0500
      Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-02 22:29 -0600
  Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-05-02 15:10 -0500
  Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-02 19:17 -0400
    Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-03 21:10 +1000
    Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 05:59 -0700
      Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 06:05 -0700
      Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 23:08 +1000
        Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 08:46 -0700
  Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-02 22:43 -0600
  Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 15:46 +1000
  Re: Inner workings of this Python feature: Can a Python data structure reference itself? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2015-05-03 03:52 -0700

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