Python如何/何时垃圾收集包含所有自己类型的集合的对象



我正在开发一个Python类,该类的结构与以下答案中的示例类似:https://stackoverflow.com/a/1383744/576333.类本身使用字典来跟踪所有创建的对象。

class Repository(object):
    # All repositories are stored in this class-level dictionary such that 
    # all instances of this class maintain the same set.
    all_repos = {}   
    def __init__(self, name, data):
        """
        Create a repository object. If it has the required tags, include it in
        the collection of all repositories.
        """
        # Don't add it if it already exists
        if not name in Repository.all_repos:
            # Store the attributes
            self.__dict__ = data
            self.__dict__['name'] = name
            Repository.all_repos.update({ name: self })

我的问题是,当我创建一个delete/remove方法并想从all_repos字典中清除Repository的实例时,python中会发生什么?以下是我计划采用的方法:

def remove(self):
    repo = Repository.all_repos.pop(self.name) # pop it out
    print "You just removed %s" % repo.name

使用以下用法:

a= Repository('repo_name', {'attr1':'attr1_value',...}
a.remove()

此时,a仍然存在,但不存在于Repository.all_repos中。Python什么时候才能最终删除a

我发现这篇文章对可视化垃圾收集非常有帮助。它使用Ruby的GC进行比较,但值得一读:

http://patshaughnessy.net/2013/10/24/visualizing-garbage-collection-in-ruby-and-python

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