[Python-Dev] PEP 442: Safe object finalization

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 18 13:05:48 CEST 2013


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Resurrection
>     The process by which a finalizer creates a new reference to an
>     object in a CI.  This can happen as a quirky but supported
>     side-effect of ``__del__`` methods.

I really like the PEP overall, but could we at least get the option to
have cases of object resurrection spit out a warning? And a clear
rationale for not turning on such a warning by default?

Cheers,
Nick.

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