On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:20:06 +0100 Stefan Richthofer <stefan.richtho...@gmx.de> wrote: > > I already pointed out > "One can surely argue x2 has never been dead, or see it as > "it was killed along with x and then resurrected by x"." > > In Java and thus in Jython, it is treated as the second one.
You mean Jython deletes instance attributes before calling __del__ ? That would make most __del__ implementations quite useless... And actually your own example would fail with an AttributeError on "X.y = self.z". > What would still be interesting (at least when Jython 3 is born), > is which of the mentioned behaviors occurs if it is > performed by CPython's cyclic gc (consistently the first one I would guess). In which use case exactly? :-) I've lost track a bit, since you've posted several examples... Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
