On Aug 13, 6:26 pm, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I doubt I'd want to slow down all attribute access on my > class just to do some cleanup, when it's probably better to just tell > everyone to use a ``with`` block. ;-)
Amen. The point is that finding an easy upgrade path for current code using __del__ does not look easy at all. Maybe we should be bold, remove __del__ in Py3K, say to everybody to use 'with', and force people to rewrite their code, ignoring the complaints from the big frameworks guys (anyway, they are already complaining ;) Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list