Possible garbage collection problem with QGraphicsItem

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Hi,

I noticed a situation in PySide where try to remove a QGraphicsItem from a parentItem/scene and it doesn't get remove from the scene when i call setParentItem(None). When I remove another (added by myself) reference to the QGraphicsItem it does work. Some code:
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class Item(QGraphicsItem):

def __init__(self, parent):
    super(Item, self).__init__(parent)
    self.select_target = self
    ...

item = Item(anotheritem)
item.setParentItem(None) #does not remove it from the scene, still gets hover events, etc.
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however when I add:

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def delete(self):
self.select_target = None
self.setParentItem(None)
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and call that, the item is removed. I would expect both to have the same result, because of two reasons:

• i thought items where responsible for painting their children and setParentItem(None) removes the item as a child
• the self.select_target = self is a circular reference that should be detected by the garbage collector

UPDATE:
found in docs: using setParentItem(0) .. 'None' in PySide .. remove item from parent item AND MOVES IT TO THE SCENE. Using

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def delete(self):
self.setParentItem(None)
self.scene().removeItem(self)
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seems to work for me (now i think of it, might give a problem if parentItem or scene was never set, leave that as exercise). Still strange that self.select_target = None worked as well ....