Does python hate cathy?

[Edward A. Falk]

In article <mailman.2308.1206425945.9267.python-list at python.org>,
Patrick Mullen <saluk64007 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Then again, I can count the number of times I have ever needed __del__
>with no fingers (never used it!).  Still, quite interesting to
>explore.

I used it once, for an object that had a doubly-linked list.
The __del__() method walked the list, setting all the elements'
prev/next pointers to None to make sure the elements of the list would
get garbage-collected.

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