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a1369209993 on May 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The PEPs of Python 3.9

True, but that's by no means a inherent characteristic of garbage collectors, or even garbage collectors operating on objects of a python implementation in particular.

Doxin on May 29, 2020 [–]

True, but that is the current philosophy behind the garbage collector in the most used python implementation and it's unlikely to change.

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