Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

We currently only defer functions that do not have the CO_NESTED flag set:

This also excludes functions defined on nested classes. In the example below, the Foo.__init__ function will not use deferred reference counting because the __init__ method's code object has the CO_NESTED flag set.

def func():
    class Foo:
        def __init__(self):
            pass

We would like to relax the restriction on CO_NESTED to allow functions that are defined on nested classes to use deferred reference counting.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-127274: Defer nested methods #128012