Hi Valentine, On 24 August 2015 at 20:43, Valentine Sinitsyn <valentine.sinit...@gmail.com> wrote: > So you mean that this was to keep things backwards compatible for > third-party extensions? I haven't thought about it this way, but this makes > sense. However, the behavior of Python code using objects with __del__ has > changed nevertheless: they are collectible now, and __del__ is always called > exactly once, if I understand everything correctly.
Yes, I think so. There is a *highly obscure* corner case: __del__ will still be called several times if you declare your class with "__slots__=()". A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ 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
