[Python-Dev] finalization again

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    GvR> Maybe some source code or class analysis looking for a
    GvR> __del__ could fix this, at the cost of not allowing one to
    GvR> patch __del__ into an existing class after instances have
    GvR> already been created.  I don't find that breach of dynamicism
    GvR> a big deal -- e.g. CPython keeps copies of __getattr__,
    GvR> __setattr__ and __delattr__ in the class for similar reasons.

For those of you who enter the "Being Guido van Rossum" door like I
just did, please keep in mind that it dumps you out not on the NJ
Turnpike, but in the little ditch back behind CNRI.  Stop by and say
hi after you brush yourself off.

-Barry