At 09:12 PM 8/8/2005 -0400, Tim Peters wrote: >I can't think of a Python feature with a higher aggregate >braincell_burned / benefit ratio than __del__ methods. If P3K retains >them-- or maybe even before --we should consider taking "the Java >dodge" on this one. That is, decree that henceforth a __del__ method >will get invoked by magic at most once on any given object O, no >matter how often O is resurrected.
How does that help? Doesn't it mean that we'll have to have some way of keeping track of which items' __del__ methods were called? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
