[Python-Dev] dummy __del__ in SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler

[Guido van Rossum]

> Given that the presence of a __del__ method keeps the garbage collector from
> reclaiming cyclic garbage, should SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler define a
> __del__ method that just executes "pass"?  Commenting it out seems to have
> gotten rid of some "uncollectable" messages from the garbage collector.
> Every other __del__ method in the top level of the standard library actually
> does something.

+1.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)