On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Eric Snow <es...@verio.net> wrote: > On Jan 7, 12:48 pm, "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Eric Snow <es...@verio.net> wrote: >> > I was reading in the documentation about __del__ and have a couple of >> > questions. Here is what I was looking at: >> >> >http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__del__ >> >> > What is globals referring to in the following text from that reference >> > page? >> >> Globals are variables that have toplevel module scope. Basically, any >> assignments, function definitions, or class definitions with no >> indentation from the left margin will create a global variable. If you >> can get at the variable by appending something of the form >> "\nSomeIdentifierHere\n" to the module's file, and it's not a built-in >> function, then it's a global. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> -- >> Follow the path of the Iguana...http://rebertia.com > > Perfect! that is kind of what I thought. Thanks. > > So any such in any module every variable in memory that starts with an > underscore will be deleted before the rest. Then this does not affect > the order in which variables are deleted in instances of my classes, > and thus all my class and instance variables (including methods) are > available when the __del__ of the class instance is called?
Indeed. The underscore special-casing only applies to modules. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
