__del__ is not called after creating a new reference

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 04:51 am, Steve D'Aprano wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:54 am, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> However, this trivial test-case
[...]

> I cannot confirm that test case. When I try it, I get NameError:

Ah, never mind! I was running this in the interactive interpreter, and
forgot that it saves a reference to the last result using _ so of course
the __del__ method didn't run at all.


I changed the code to run:

c = C()
del c

and now I'm seeing the same thing as you: DEL is only printed once.



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Steve
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