Deleting objects

[Michael Hudson]

tkpmep at hotmail.com (Thomas Philips) writes:

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> Villain dies and executes its destructor (__del__). The game then
> ends. However, when I execute the program in IDLE, IT FINISHES BY
> EXECUTING THE DESTRUCTOR FOR BOTH HERO AND VILLAIN.

Err, __del__ isn't a destructor, it's a finalizer.  It's called by the
Python runtime when it has determined that the object is garbage,
which is usually immediately after the last reference to it is
dropped.

Cheers,
mwh

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