Chris, > Once again, you make positive assertions about things you > don't understand.
And you have refused to bring any kind of help (explanation!) forward that could have shown me the erring of my ways, as well as refusing to adress my (attempting to explain) examples. You might know a thing or two about Python, but you (and a number of others here) positivily stink as teachers, incapable or even unwilling to place themselves in the shoes of a newbie. Only now I know, after Dennis explanation, that there are (at least) /two/ garbage collectors. One of which is triggered by a reference count becoming zero, and one periodically called. And although you have been fighting me over when the __del__ method is called, it /is/ called directly as a result of an "del instance" and the refcount goes zero. There is /no/ delay. (with the only exception is when a circular reference exists). Hence, no "race condition" problem. But for some reason even my claiming that that would happen didn't trigger any kind of understanding. And you blame /me/ for making certain (logical!) assumptions ? Really ? Regards, Rudy Wieser -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
