No destructor

[Aahz Maruch]

[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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