Re: [Jython-dev] Python object not gc()'d, 21b1

[Samuele P. <ped...@bl...>]

> 
> Unfortunately Jython 2.1b1 doesn't inform you of the exception in the
> way it should. When I fix that bug, your program will the same way, but
> it will write:
> 

The point is that java simply discards the exceptions thrown in finalizers.
So we should catch them and print them explicitly for the __del__
invocation in the finalizer.
OTOH there is no leak.

regards, Samuele Pedroni.