del behavior 2

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Eric Snow wrote:
> I was reading in the documentation about __del__ and have a couple of
> questions.  Here is what I was looking at:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__del__
> 
> My second question is about the following:
> 
> "It is not guaranteed that __del__() methods are called for objects
> that still exist when the interpreter exits."
> 
> I understand that and have seen it too.  That's fine.  But how do any
> of you deal with things that are left open because you did not get a
> chance to close them?  How do you clean up after the fact?  Do you
> simply keep track externally the things that need to be cleaned up if
> __del__ doesn't get a chance?  Any ideas?  Thanks
> 
There's the 'with' statement and try...finally.