destructors order not guaranteed?

[William S. Lear]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
> ...         Thus, [Python has] no (e.g.) dangling-references problem,
> but no elegant automatic-LIFO discipline, either ...

I think the elegant automatic-LIFO discipline is very valuable.  Why
could this not be guaranteed in Python?  If I remember correctly,
Frederick Lundh says that there is not even a guarantee that
destructors will be called.  I find this notion inelegant and
counter-intuitive, but perhaps my intuition is pointed in the wrong
direction.


Bill
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