On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:44 -0500, shawn bright wrote: > if i name them, like bob = group.Group(some_id) ? > > what is going to happen is that each time, the variable will create a > different object > > like > while 1: > group = group.Group(some_id) > do some stuff with group. > > so since it keeps getting replaced, it should be ok without some way > to destroy it ?
You can verify this by putting some kind of signal in the __del__ method. For instance: >>> class A: ... def __del__(self): print "destroyed" ... >>> bob = A() >>> bob = A() destroyed >>> dir() ['A', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'bob'] So you can see that binding the name "bob" to a different instance resulted in destroying the first one. > > > thanks > > > On 10/20/06, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/20/06, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oh, one more thing. > > these objects are going to be created at the rate of about > 20 / minute in a > > thread. > > at some point is this going to be a problem ? do they go > away over time? > > Or do i need to write something that will kill them? > > If you don't keep references too them (i.e. by having names > that are > bound to them, or by keeping them in collections) then they'll > go away > - usually as soon as the last reference to them is gone. > > -- > Cheers, > Simon B > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
