__del__ and reference count problem

[tiissa]

ajikoe at gmail.com wrote:
> Your problem can be simplified :
> 
> class A:
>   pop = 11
>   def __del__(self):
>     print A.pop
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>   objA = A()
> 
> I got the same error message, and I don't know why ? it looks like the
> class variable can't be accessed from __del__?

It's interesting to note that self.pop instead of A.pop works as expected.
But I don't know why A.pop doesn't.