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Simplistic demonstration of Python GC behaviour
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listref.py
import gc
import weakref
class Object(object): pass
l = [Object()]
l[0].l = l
REFS = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
REFS[l[0]] = True
del l
print (list(REFS.keys()))
gc.collect()
print (list(REFS.keys()))
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gvx commented Oct 3, 2012

Output in both Python 2.6.6 and 3.2:

[<__main__.Object object at 0x258d690>]
[]

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