Jeff Shannon wrote: > Python's __del__() is not a C++/Java destructor.
Learn something new everyday... What is it then? Excuse my ignorance, but what are you suppose to do if your object needs to clean up when its no longer used (like close open file handles, etc)? Are you use supposed to make a method called Destroy() or something and require users to call it when the object is about to be deleted? That seems to put the burdon of ref counting on the user. I read in the programming FAQ about making an explicit close() method that can be called multiple times. It just seems like kinda a pain when a C++/Java style destructor would nicely do what is desired. Should I just stop digging and chalk it up to a limitation of Python? I'm just trying to understand all this... Thanks, -- C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
