On 8/2/06, Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
The usual idiom is to have a way to explicitly dispose an object which
holds a reference to a non-GC resource. In C# you do
obj = new SomeObject ();
treeview.set_model (obj);
newobj = new SomeObject ();
treeview.set_model (newobj);
obj.Dispose ();
or use syntactic sugar:
using (Gdk.Pixbuf pixbuf = new Gdk.Pixbuf ("foo.jpg")) {
do_something_with_pixbuf (pixbuf);
} /* exiting the "using" block disposes the pixbuf */
This is pretty useful for managed objects which maintain non-managed
data (file descriptors, memory buffers, database connections, etc.).
Does Python let you do something like this?
It should be possible to export g_object_unref() through the pygobject API.
That would of course be not pythonic at all and not trigger collection
if any other (uncollected) python objects are still holding
references.
(/me waits for pygtk devs to point out more flaws)
- Rob
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