of destructors, open files and garbage collection

massimo s. devicerandom at gmail.com
Sat May 26 08:57:50 EDT 2007


> No, it removes the association between the name 'item' and the object it is
> currently bound to.  In CPython, removing the last such reference will
> cause the object to be gc'ed.  In other implementations, actual deletion
> may occur later.  You probably should close the files directly and arrange
> code so that you can do so before too many are open.

Thanks a lot, I'll follow that way.

m.




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