RFC: Proposal: Deterministic Object Destruction

[Ooomzay]

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:10:53 UTC, Dietmar Schwertberger  wrote:
> CPython does *not* guarantee destruction when the object reference goes 
> out of scope, even if there are no other references.
> I would very much appreciate such a deterministic behaviour, at least 
> with CPython.
> 
> I recently had to debug an issue in the matplotlib wx backend (*). Under 
> certain conditions, the wx device context was not destroyed when the 
> reference went out of scope. Adding a del to the end of the method or 
> calling the Destroy method of the context did fix the issue. (There was 
> also a hidden reference, but avoiding this was not sufficient. The del 
> was still required.)

You say the reference was out of scope but that a del was still required. What were you delling if the reference was out of scope? Could you sketch the code.