[Python-Dev] Design question: call __del__ for cyclical garbage?

[Moshe Zadka]

[Tim Peters]
> ...If a trash cycle
> contains a finalizer (my, but that has to be rare. in practice, in
> well-designed code!), 

This shows something Tim himself has often said -- he never programmed a
GUI. It's very hard to build a GUI (especially with Tkinter) which is
cycle-less, but the classes implementing the GUI often have __del__'s
to break system-allocated resources.

So, it's not as rare as we would like to believe, which is the reason
I haven't given this answer.

which-is-not-the-same-thing-as-disagreeing-with-it-ly y'rs, Z.
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