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	There's one major and one minor category still unfixed: doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon); other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category. (Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)
		
			
				
	
	
		
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"""
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gc.get_referrers() can be used to see objects before they are fully built.
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Note that this is only an example.  There are many ways to crash Python
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by using gc.get_referrers(), as well as many extension modules (even
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when they are using perfectly documented patterns to build objects).
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Identifying and removing all places that expose to the GC a
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partially-built object is a long-term project.  A patch was proposed on
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SF specifically for this example but I consider fixing just this single
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example a bit pointless (#1517042).
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A fix would include a whole-scale code review, possibly with an API
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change to decouple object creation and GC registration, and according
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fixes to the documentation for extension module writers.  It's unlikely
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to happen, though.  So this is currently classified as
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"gc.get_referrers() is dangerous, use only for debugging".
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"""
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import gc
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def g():
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    marker = object()
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    yield marker
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    # now the marker is in the tuple being constructed
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    [tup] = [x for x in gc.get_referrers(marker) if type(x) is tuple]
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    print(tup)
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    print(tup[1])
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tuple(g())
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