__del__ methods

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Jul 18, 11:31 am, Jason Baker <amnorv... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a class that I need to do some finalization on when it dies.  I
> know I can use the __del__ method, but I seem to recall that it
> impedes garbage collection.  Is this the case?

FWIW, I know a good number of top notch Python programmers
who have programmed happily for years without ever using
__del__.  There are ways to get it to work for you, but
it may be the smart thing to pretend that you've never
heard of it.

Raymond