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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gc.py b/Lib/test/test_gc.py
index b4cbfb6d774..85c43055d0d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gc.py
@@ -262,9 +262,11 @@ class GCTests(unittest.TestCase):
# finalizer.
def __del__(self):
- # 5. Create a weakref to `func` now. If we had created
- # it earlier, it would have been cleared by the
- # garbage collector before calling the finalizers.
+ # 5. Create a weakref to `func` now. In previous
+ # versions of Python, this would avoid having it
+ # cleared by the garbage collector before calling
+ # the finalizers. Now, weakrefs get cleared after
+ # calling finalizers.
self[1].ref = weakref.ref(self[0])
# 6. Drop the global reference to `latefin`. The only
@@ -293,14 +295,18 @@ class GCTests(unittest.TestCase):
# which will find `cyc` and `func` as garbage.
gc.collect()
- # 9. Previously, this would crash because `func_qualname`
- # had been NULL-ed out by func_clear().
+ # 9. Previously, this would crash because the weakref
+ # created in the finalizer revealed the function after
+ # `tp_clear` was called and `func_qualname`
+ # had been NULL-ed out by func_clear(). Now, we clear
+ # weakrefs to unreachable objects before calling `tp_clear`
+ # but after calling finalizers.
print(f"{func=}")
"""
- # We're mostly just checking that this doesn't crash.
rc, stdout, stderr = assert_python_ok("-c", code)
self.assertEqual(rc, 0)
- self.assertRegex(stdout, rb"""\A\s*func=<function at \S+>\s*\z""")
+ # The `func` global is None because the weakref was cleared.
+ self.assertRegex(stdout, rb"""\A\s*func=None""")
self.assertFalse(stderr)
@refcount_test