On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:31:20 -0700, Jason Baker wrote:
> I have a class that I need to do some finalization on when it dies. I
> know I can use the __del__ method, but I seem to recall that it
> impedes garbage collection. Is this the case?
`__del__()` is not a deterministic destructor. So forget about reliable
automatic clean up. Do it yourself with an explicit call to a `close()`
method or something like that.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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