On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:33:25 +0000 Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11/12/2019 21:32, mus...@posteo.org wrote: > > Plain and simple: When the refcount reaches zero. > You are assuming that "when" implies "immediately on the occurence." I'm not implying that. It's the dictionary definition of the word "when." > This happens to be the behaviour in CPython, but other > implementations vary as Chris has explained several times now. And he's right. The documentation is unclear. It should be re-worded to reflect that the point at which the __del__() method is called after the refcount reaches zero is unspecified. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
