does python have useless destructors?

[Carl Banks]

David Turner wrote:
> 
> 
> Carl Banks <imbosol at aerojockey.invalid> wrote in message news:<g31zc.89734$DG4.42241 at fe2.columbus.rr.com>...
>> [snip]
>> > I don't need to know whether my function is the sole user of an object
>> > and it falls to me to free it when I'm done, because the system takes
>> > care of that.  I get it, I use it, I forget about it. 
>> 
>> The problem is, you can't always afford to forget about it.  Sometimes
>> you have to make sure that at this point in the program, this resource
>> has been released.
>> 
>> If you're relying on garbage collection to do that for you, you're
>> asking for trouble.
> 
> 
> Carl, this is why we're suggesting a mechanism other than garbage
> collection to deal with this.
[snip]

Replace "garbage collection" with "automatic finalization" and
everything I just said is just as true.


> This is exactly how CPython works at the moment, bar one exceptional
> case which needs to be fixed.

What case is that?


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