At 07:27 PM 5/10/2007 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >The PEP for eliminating __del__ seemed straight-forward at the >outset, but the use case you presented doesn't seem to have a clean >substitute (as it requires the object to be alive to finalize >it). Other use cases do have a clean solution. So, I'll go forward >with the PEP but am a bit disheartened that it is going to have to >advise try/finally or somesuch for the harder cases.
By the way - another issue with removing __del__ is that try/finally in generators (PEP 342) is implemented using it. Which means that if you took away __del__ from the Python level, you could still simulate it by saving a reference to a running generator with a finally clause. Of course, that would have at least as many problems as using __del__ directly, but there you go. :) _______________________________________________ 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
