I have learnt a lot from your example and used it for my purpose. Thank you, it very helped me. Lada
Peter Otten wrote: > Ladislav Andel wrote: > > >> need to be stopped before deleting any instance from items. >> So I need to call stopLoop method in the given item in items before it >> gets removed. >> If there is any addition to items it's quite easy to call >> item.startLoop() method. >> > > Unless you want to rely on the __del__ method or introduce another > complication (weak references) you have to be explicit: > > # untested > # removing items > db_items = set(Item(**d) for d in dblist) > delenda = items - db_items > for item in delenda: > item.stopLoop() > items.remove(item) > > >> (I use twisted but it should not make any difference): >> > > I've not worked with twisted, so I can't confirm that. > I can imagine that they provide their own way to spell a finalizer... > > Peter > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list