On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Devin Jeanpierre >> Destroying memory is comparatively easy, as you say -- just make the >> object's internal state "invalid", rather than adding anything to the >> language. > > Yeah. Works fine if you have a cooperative system that checks that > state every time; otherwise, it'd need at least some language support > (the goal is to have its destructor called and all its references > wiped, so resources get released).
I guess my point is that I don't see what you need on top of extension modules. Same for previous paragraph. -- Devin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list