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| 2 | n/a | # The cycle GC collector can be executed when any GC-tracked object is |
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| 3 | n/a | # allocated, e.g. during a call to PyList_New(), PyDict_New(), ... |
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| 4 | n/a | # Moreover, it can invoke arbitrary Python code via a weakref callback. |
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| 5 | n/a | # This means that there are many places in the source where an arbitrary |
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| 6 | n/a | # mutation could unexpectedly occur. |
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| 7 | n/a | |
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| 8 | n/a | # The example below shows list_slice() not expecting the call to |
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| 9 | n/a | # PyList_New to mutate the input list. (Of course there are many |
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| 10 | n/a | # more examples like this one.) |
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| 11 | n/a | |
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| 12 | n/a | |
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| 13 | n/a | import weakref |
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| 14 | n/a | |
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| 15 | n/a | class A(object): |
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| 16 | n/a | pass |
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| 17 | n/a | |
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| 18 | n/a | def callback(x): |
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| 19 | n/a | del lst[:] |
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| 20 | n/a | |
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| 21 | n/a | |
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| 22 | n/a | keepalive = [] |
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| 23 | n/a | |
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| 24 | n/a | for i in range(100): |
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| 25 | n/a | lst = [str(i)] |
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| 26 | n/a | a = A() |
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| 27 | n/a | a.cycle = a |
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| 28 | n/a | keepalive.append(weakref.ref(a, callback)) |
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| 29 | n/a | del a |
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| 30 | n/a | while lst: |
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| 31 | n/a | keepalive.append(lst[:]) |
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