"Blaise Morose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I have this silly piece of code that I am experimenting with:
I'm not certain but... based on this quote from the Python docs:
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Warning: Due to the precarious circumstances under which __del__()
methods are invoked, exceptions that occur during their execution are
ignored, and a warning is printed to sys.stderr instead. Also, when
__del__() is invoked in response to a module being deleted (e.g., when
execution of the program is done), other globals referenced by the
__del__() method may already have been deleted. For this reason,
__del__() methods should do the absolute minimum needed to maintain
external invariants. Starting with version 1.5, Python guarantees that
globals whose name begins with a single underscore are deleted from
their module before other globals are deleted; if no other references
to such globals exist, this may help in assuring that imported modules
are still available at the time when the __del__() method is called.
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class Person:
p = Person('Jean')
d = Person('Michael')
Because you don't explicitly kill the objects the interpreter may have
deleted the class object before the instance __del__ gets called.
What happens iof you explicity del(p) and del(d)?
Just a thought.
Alan G.
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