does python have useless destructors?

[Paul Rubin]

David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> writes:
> It lets you write code like:
> 
>         void some_function(void) {
>             Lock_object lock(some_parms);
> 
>             - do something needing the lock -
>         }

There's a PEP for something like that in Python:

  http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0310.html

I think that's greatly preferable to dictating that the GC system act
a certain way and free resources as soon as they go out of scope.
That's just not the correct semantics for GC.  GC should simply create
the illusion for the application that all objects stay around forever.