On Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:10:53 UTC, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > CPython does *not* guarantee destruction when the object reference goes > out of scope, even if there are no other references. > I would very much appreciate such a deterministic behaviour, at least > with CPython. > > I recently had to debug an issue in the matplotlib wx backend (*). Under > certain conditions, the wx device context was not destroyed when the > reference went out of scope. Adding a del to the end of the method or > calling the Destroy method of the context did fix the issue. (There was > also a hidden reference, but avoiding this was not sufficient. The del > was still required.)
You say the reference was out of scope but that a del was still required. What were you delling if the reference was out of scope? Could you sketch the code. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
