To all the generous Python coders on this list, I've been told numerous times that using __del__ is not the way to handle clean-up because it is finicky. Fine. However, how should I handle the following problem: A folder is created during object instantiation. This is necessary because multiple other methods depend on the existence of that folder, and in the future things may be running in parallel so it has to be there for the entire life of the object. Before the object is deleted, I want that temp folder to be deleted (ala shutil.rmtree). Is there a better way to do this?
Regardless of whether I should be using __del__, can anyone explain this to me (to satisfy curiosity): My class sub-types dict. In __init__, there is a call to self.update(pickle.load(<some file>)). For some reason, this triggers __del__. Why? Thanks in advance to whomever responds. I hope I was clear enough. -- ~ Matthew Strax-Haber National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center (LaRC) Co-op, Safety-Critical Avionics Systems Branch Student, Northeastern University W: 757-864-7378; C: 561-704-0029 matthew.strax-ha...@nasa.gov _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
