destructors order not guaranteed?

[William S. Lear]

"Rainer Deyke" <root at rainerdeyke.com> writes:
> "William S. Lear" <rael at see.sig.com> wrote in message
> news:87snpduoxg.fsf at lisa.zopyra.com...
> > I don't see why it is not possible to "unwind" objects using a simple
> > stack of object pointers, but then I don't know the Python interpreter
> > internals.
> 
> You can explicitly control the lifetime of objects by using del.  You can
> also reference the objects through a utility object which defines __del__ to
> delete the objects it references in order (which can be automated).

Yes of course you can do it all explicitly and build all sorts of
contraptions to handle it for you, but this, to my mind, is a burden
the programmer should not have to bear.


Bill
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