On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:12:06 -0700, Митя wrote:
> I have a class which I want to save it's data automatically on disc,
> when it's destroyed. I have following code:
>
> from cPickle import dump
>
> class __Register(object):
> def __init__(self):
> self.dict = {}
> def __del__(self):
> fh = open('aaa', 'w')
> dump(self.dict, fh)
> fh.close()
>
> g_register = __Register() # global instance. I do not destroy it
> manually, so destructor is called on iterpreter exit
The call to `__del__()` is not guaranteed.
> can I somehow save my data from destructor?
Reliably? No! Change your design, it won't work this way.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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