[Python-Dev] reference leaks, __del__, and annotations

[Thomas Wouters]

On 4/1/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 4/1/06, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nick Coghlan
> > > A simple Boolean attribute (e.g. __finalized__) should be enough. ...
> > > If it's both present and true, the GC can ignore the finaliser on that
> > instance
> >
> > That doesn't really take care of resource release, which needs to be
> > called, and called early.(And the name will sound odd if it holds
> > resources only sometimes, so that it has to flip the __finalized__
> > attribute.)
>
>
> Well, I don't want to sound too gross, but any such class could store its
> resources *in* __finalized__, leaving it an empty container when there is no
> resource to release.
>

Eh, that would mean the attribute would have to be called '__notfinalized__'
of course ;)

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