> The InstanceCounted.count is 1 at the end. If I omit the call to > "self.method = print_exception_decorator(self.method)" then the instance > count goes down to 0 as desired. I thought that the decorator might be > holding a reference to the instance through the bound method, so I added > the __del__() but it doesn't fix the problem.
Adding __del__ introduces a whole bunch of new issues with cyclic gc. http://docs.python.org/library/gc.html#gc.garbage > Can anyone suggest anything? Is my technique to decorate bound methods > not a good one? How else should I decorate a bound method? You shouldn't use __del__ to count your instances. Instead you can use sys.getrefcount() and gc.get_objects() or use a weakref with a callback. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
