On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:18:47 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > > But when I leave "large" temp objects hanging and > > give a rip, I already stick in "del" statements anyway. Very rarely, > > but it happens. > > > > I recall that in the development of asyncio there were a few places where > we had to insert del statements, not so much to free a chunk of memory, but > to cause some destructor or finalizer to run early enough. (IIRC not right > at that moment, but at some later moment even if some Futures are still > alive.) Those issues took considerable effort to find, and would > conceivably have been prevented by this proposal.
If code relies on life variable analysis for correctness, it implies other Python implementations must implement it with exactly the same results. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/V6AGHX43FB2EF6RZGQQJTYGQTRVX3W2F/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
