In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Patrick Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Then again, I can count the number of times I have ever needed __del__
>with no fingers (never used it!). Still, quite interesting to
>explore.
I used it once, for an object that had a doubly-linked list.
The __del__() method walked the list, setting all the elements'
prev/next pointers to None to make sure the elements of the list would
get garbage-collected.
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