Generator inside a class prevent __del__ ??

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org
Wed Apr 21 18:57:33 EDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:53:33PM +0200, Emmanuel wrote:
> 
> Trouble is, I _would_ like not to care about the lifetime of the object, and I
> don't know where it will be destroyed.

Then don't use __del__.  Python can and will automatically collect cycles
when the objects *don't* define __del__ methods.

Out of curiousity, why are you defining __del__ anyway?

-Andrew.





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