Since no PEP has been submitted about eliminating __del__, __del__ remains, by default, in Python 3000. I am more comfortable with this anyway.
However, I still welcome an informational PEP describing the "best practices" for avoiding it by using weak references, including some support code to be added to weakref.py (this could probably be added to Python 2.6 as well; and for earlier releases it could be made available as a 3rd party add-on or as a "recipe" in the online Python Cookbook (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/). I am hoping that someone besides Raymond will volunteer to write such a PEP; his busy schedule makes it unlikely that he will have the time necessary to devote to this project. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
