R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: MAL wrote: > Antoine wrote: >> MAL wrote: >>> I don't follow you. Where's the difference between writing: >>> >>> s.close() >>> or >>> s = None >>> >>> for an open socket s ? >> >> The difference is when s is still referenced elsewhere. >> Also, the intent of the former is clear while the latter is deliberately >> obscure (while not saving any significant amount of typing). > >Sure, but that's not the point. It is not a mistake to write >such code and neither is this obscure, otherwise we'd also >require explicit garbage collection for other parts of Python.
Yes it is a mistake: In an earlier message MAL wrote: > The only difference is with Python implementations that don't > use synchronous garbage collection, e.g. Jython, but not with > CPython. This by definition makes it non-equivalent and a bad *Python* idiom, since it depends on an acknowledged CPython *implementation detail*. As far as I know, there is no language requirement that mandates having garbage collection at all. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10093> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com