[pygtk] gpointer data on callback

[David Arnold]

-->"James" == James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au> writes:
  James> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, D-Man wrote:

  >>  What if Python switched to gc instead of ref counting?

  James> There is almost no chance of adding another GC to the mix for
  James> pygtk.  Both python and gtk do reference counted garbage
  James> collection.  The objects in question are python objects, so
  James> are using reference counting already, and there is no way to
  James> change that.

note that as of 2.0b1 (available now, 2.0 final scheduled for 10/10),
the interpreter includes garbage collection (for Python objects).

reference counting is still used, but cycles are (optionally)
collected by the gc.



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