[Tutor] destructor methods

[Timothy Wilson]

Hi everyone,

I've started looking through the C++ code for that plagiarism program
'Copyfind'. I notice that the author has a destructor method to get rid of
instances of his 'document' class. I don't recall any Python programs that
use destructors (I'm not an accomplished object-oriented programmer). Does
Python every use them? I understand that Python's garbage collection
automatically takes care of that sort of thing. Is it possible that
explicitly removing instances of a class improves performance in an
application that uses a lot of RAM (like a plagiarism scanner, for instance
:-)?

-Tim

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