Rewrote the docs for supporting cyclic garbage collection to reflect

the new way that once writes types.

Deleted the old section and sample code and added a new section
building on the Noddy example.
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Jim Fulton 2003-06-28 13:29:16 +00:00
parent 9c3e957251
commit 6c71091fbe
5 changed files with 394 additions and 103 deletions

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@ -106,6 +106,99 @@ Traceback (most recent call last):
TypeError: an integer is required
>>> del n1
>>> del n2
Noddy 4
>>> import noddy4
>>> n1 = noddy4.Noddy('jim', 'fulton', 42)
>>> n1.first
'jim'
>>> n1.last
'fulton'
>>> n1.number
42
>>> n1.name()
'jim fulton'
>>> n1.first = 'will'
>>> n1.name()
'will fulton'
>>> n1.last = 'tell'
>>> n1.name()
'will tell'
>>> del n1.first
>>> n1.name()
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: first
>>> n1.first
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: first
>>> n1.first = 'drew'
>>> n1.first
'drew'
>>> del n1.number
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: can't delete numeric/char attribute
>>> n1.number=2
>>> n1.number
2
>>> n1.first = 42
>>> n1.name()
'42 tell'
>>> n2 = noddy4.Noddy()
>>> n2 = noddy4.Noddy()
>>> n2 = noddy4.Noddy()
>>> n2 = noddy4.Noddy()
>>> n2.name()
' '
>>> n2.first
''
>>> n2.last
''
>>> del n2.first
>>> n2.first
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: first
>>> n2.first
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: first
>>> n2.name()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: first
>>> n2.number
0
>>> n3 = noddy4.Noddy('jim', 'fulton', 'waaa')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: an integer is required
Test cyclic gc(?)
>>> import gc
>>> gc.disable()
>>> x = []
>>> l = [x]
>>> n2.first = l
>>> n2.first
[[]]
>>> l.append(n2)
>>> del l
>>> del n1
>>> del n2
>>> sys.getrefcount(x)
3
>>> ignore = gc.collect()
>>> sys.getrefcount(x)
2
>>> gc.enable()
"""
import os