No destructor

[Ken Kinder]

Actually, there is a patch for a Python garbage collector:
http://www.enme.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python/gc.html

It's not part of the standard Python distribution, but if you apply the patch it
works pretty well. It does break things like

txt = open('foo').read()

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> [BTW, Makhno, please include attributions for quoted posts.  It's
> important to keep track of who said what.]
>
> In article <8nrsnb$h4f$1 at news5.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> Makhno <mak at imakhno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >This is incorrect. There are destructors, Python would be useless as a
> >garbadge collecting extensible scripting language if it did not have them.
>
> Python is not a "garbage collecting language".  While Python 2.0 will
> have a garbage collector, using it will be strictly optional.  For all
> versions prior to 2.0, it is only correct to say that Python is a
> reference-counting language.
>
> Nevertheless, your basic point was correct.
> --
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Ken Kinder
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