From 999b843819b0df58826f30913de935ebf91bcc41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Viktorin Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 13:17:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [3.13] gh-120426: Add the glossary term "immortal" (GH-123191) (#123491) Add the glossary term "immortal", mark it as an implementation detail (cherry picked from commit 6754566a51a5706e8c9da0094b892113311ba20c) (cherry picked from commit 1af74fa652b40d5ce67875ebfefd2f5a1cc28a2f) (Unlike the original commits, this adds the entire entry.) --- Doc/glossary.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index d1745bf5ccd015..c85370fec84aea 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -591,6 +591,14 @@ Glossary :ref:`idle` is a basic editor and interpreter environment which ships with the standard distribution of Python. + immortal + *Immortal objects* are a CPython implementation detail introduced + in :pep:`683`. + + If an object is immortal, its :term:`reference count` is never modified, + and therefore it is never deallocated while the interpreter is running. + For example, :const:`True` and :const:`None` are immortal in CPython. + immutable An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and tuples. Such an object cannot be altered. A new object has to