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Add more entries to the glossary.
Written by Jeff Wheeler for GHOP.
| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> |
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| date | Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:58:50 +0000 |
| parents | c62f6669ae22 |
| children | 063ed377fd3d |
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--- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst Sun Dec 02 14:37:29 2007 +0000 +++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst Sun Dec 02 14:58:50 2007 +0000 @@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ =============== Python does automatic memory management (reference counting for most objects and -garbage collection to eliminate cycles). The memory is freed shortly after the -last reference to it has been eliminated. +:term:`garbage collection` to eliminate cycles). The memory is freed shortly +after the last reference to it has been eliminated. This approach works fine for most applications but occasionally there is a need to track objects only as long as they are being used by something else.