Python equivalent of C++'s virtual destructors?

[Erik Max Francis]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> I believe this restriction is meant to apply to 99+% of the cases, the
> odd-case out being exactly this one: a derived class's __del__ needing
> to call the parents'.

Thanks.  I had a feeling that that was the right thing to do, but it
wasn't clear to me.

Actually, I sort of like having all calls to __init__ or __del__ for
base classes be explicit.  It eliminates any question of what's going
on.

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