R. David Murray added the comment: __del__ methods are in general tricky because they are in the general case run asynchronously. Therefore any proposal to "attach" the message to another message is a non-starter.
If a __del__ method depends on attributes set in the __init__, then the programmer needs to decide if they want to handle the possibility of __init__ failing, and therefore __del__ running without __init__ having completed. For the stdlib, I think I'd lean toward handling such cases, in which case IMO the Pythonic thing to do is indeed to have a class attribute to provide the pre-__init__ default. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12085> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
