On Sep 28, 12:00 pm, Marcin201 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a class which uses a temporary directory for storing data. I > would like that directory to be removed when the class is no longer > used. I have tried removing the temporary directory from the class > destructor, however, it was never called. After I while I traced the > problem to the class having a reference to it's own function. Here is > a simplified model. > > test.py > class Foo: > def __init__(self): > print "Hello" > self.f = self.fxn > > def __del__(self): > print "Bye" > > def fxn(self): > print "function" > > a = Foo() > > running python test.py I get > Hello > > Is this an expected behavior or a bug in python? If this is expected > any suggestions for working around this. I would like to avoid having > to call the destructor explicitly.
Others have already replied to your main question; in short you shouldn't rely on __del__ being called. Regardless, is there a (good) reason for having an instance reference to the method ? Without further information, that seems like a code smell. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
