Problem with __del__

[Joel Ricker]

Fredrik Lundh wrote in message <1OJ66.4624$AH6.762498 at newsc.telia.net>...

>python replaces global objects with None during cleanup, in a well-
>defined but somewhat unpredictable (for a human, at least) order:
>
>    http://www.python.org/doc/essays/cleanup.html
>
>if you can, get rid of the destructors (__del__ methods are evil, and
>shouldn't be used in normal programming).
>
>if you really must keep them around, make sure you keep references
>to global objects:
>
>    def __del__(self, dosomething=dosomething):
>        print self.name, dosomething
>        dosomething()
>
>hope this helps!


I guess I could chime in with my question.  What is the proper
implementation of deleting objects once you are done with them.  Thats
probably the one part of the objects section of the tutorial  that I wasn't
sure about. Wouldn't you want a destructor to do things for cleanup or would
just implement it differently like this:

def deleteme(self)
    dosomething();
    del self

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