On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dnia 17-03-2008, Pn o godzinie 11:56 -0600, Adam Olsen pisze: > > > I've replaced __del__ API (which resurrected objects) with a > > __finalize__/__finalizeattrs__ API (which doesn't). Attributes listed > > in __finalizeattrs__ are proxied into a core object, a finalizer > > thread is given a reference to the core, and when the main object is > > deleted the GC asynchronously notifies the finalizer thread so that it > > can call core.__finalize__(). The net result is an API very similar > > to __del__ (you need to list attributes it might use), but it's now > > impossible for the GC to run arbitrary code (I even enforce this). > > Ah! Irrespective of other issues, I like this very much. This design > agrees with my understanding of how finalization should behave, except > that I haven't had details in mind which would fit Python. My abstract > design needs the finalization function to somehow access parts of the > dying object, but not the object itself, and this design shows how to > actually do it in a convenient way.
Note that you can use something very much like this right now:: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/519635 Steve -- I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ 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