New submission from Nick Coghlan: This came up in issue 17468: currently, populating tp_del from C (as generators now do) doesn't automatically create a __del__ wrapper visible from Python.
The rationale given in the initial commit is that there's no need to define a wrapper, since tp_del won't be populated from C code (that will use tp_dealloc instead), but there's now at least one case where it *is* populated from C (generators), which means it behaves *as if* __del__ is defined (since the interpreter actually checks the tp_del slot), but *looks* like __del__ *isn't* defined (since there is no wrapper created). Independent of the memory leak concerns with generators defining tp_del, it would be better if a wrapper function was defined so the existence of the method was at least visible from Python code. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 187409 nosy: ncoghlan priority: low severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Expose __del__ when tp_del is populated from C code type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17800> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
