On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 20:05 -0500, Michael Wieher wrote: > is that farnarkeling about in a __del__ method is *not* a good > idea. > > Ok that having been said, is accessing an unbound variable of a class > and using it to coordinate between instances of that class common > practice?
I'm not sure what you mean by "accessing an unbound variable" means in the context of this thread, or any context for that matter. Nothing of the kind is happening in the OP's example. What's happening is that a class attribute is initialized, incremented, and decremented. Using class attributes is common practice. The problem, as I explained in my previous post, is that the class attribute is looked up via a global name of the class, and that name may or may not have disappeared in a puff of logic by the time the instance's __del__ method is run in the VM shutdown sequence. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
