On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 07:34, Dieter Maurer wrote: > >I don't think it makes a lot of sense to put an __del__ method on a > >Persistent object. > > I just read in "cPersistence.c:ghostify": > > /* We remove the reference to the just ghosted object that the ring > * holds. Note that the dictionary of oids->objects has an uncounted > * reference, so if the ring's reference was the only one, this frees > * the ghost object. Note further that the object's dealloc knows to > * inform the dictionary that it is going away. > */ > > This means: *all* persistent objects have a special "dealloc" > function. Hope, this "dealloc" function plays well with the > cyclic garbage collector.
All Python objects have a "dealloc" function -- whatever is in the tp_dealloc slot. The tp_dealloc function at the C level is completely different from an __del__ method at the Python level. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )