FWIW and in light of the thread on removing __del__ from the language, I just posted Yet Another Recipe for automatic finalization: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/519621
It allows writing a finalizer as a single __finalize__ method, at the cost of explicitly calling an enable_finalizer() method with the list of attributes to keep alive on the "ghost object". Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
