Message 366077 - Python tracker

Message366077

Author	pablogsal
Recipients	Eric Cousineau, pablogsal, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2020-04-09.16:23:46
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There is a specific Python function in 3.9 for it: https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/gc.html#gc.is_finalized So it may sense to add a function to query if an object is finalized, but I am not sure it makes sense to allow to mark an object as finalized because that could mess with the GC algorithm. Certainly exposing the macros per se may be a bad idea because there are too many implementation details there (like where the flags are stored) so at least a new function will be needed.

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There is a specific Python function in 3.9 for it:

https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/gc.html#gc.is_finalized

So it may sense to add a function to query if an object is finalized, but I am not sure it makes sense to allow to mark an object as finalized because that could mess with the GC algorithm.

Certainly exposing the macros per se may be a bad idea because there are too many implementation details there (like where the flags are stored) so at least a new function will be needed.

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