Commit ef180dc3 authored by Martin v. Löwis's avatar Martin v. Löwis

Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects.

Fixes #505453.
parent fb0da9d7
...@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ Return the list of objects that directly refer to any of objs. This ...@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ Return the list of objects that directly refer to any of objs. This
function will only locate those containers which support garbage function will only locate those containers which support garbage
collection; extension types which do refer to other objects but do not collection; extension types which do refer to other objects but do not
support garbage collection will not be found. support garbage collection will not be found.
Note that objects which have already been dereferenced, but which live
in cycles and have not yet been collected by the garbage collector can
be listed among the resulting referrers. To get only currently live
objects, call \function{collect()} before calling
\function{get_referrers()}.
\versionadded{2.2} \versionadded{2.2}
\end{funcdesc} \end{funcdesc}
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...@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ Edward Welbourne ...@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ Edward Welbourne
Rickard Westman Rickard Westman
Truida Wiedijk Truida Wiedijk
Gerry Wiener Gerry Wiener
Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
Sue Williams Sue Williams
Frank Willison Frank Willison
Greg V. Wilson Greg V. Wilson
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