On Mar 21, 8:37 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Randy Turner wrote: > > I was reading a book on Python-3 programming recently and the book stated > > that, while there is an __init__ method for initializing objects, there was > > a __del__ method but the __del__ method is not guaranteed to be called when > > an object is destroyed. > > > If there is code in the __init__ method that allocates resources (memory, > > file opens, etc.), how do these resources get cleaned up when an object is > > destroyed? Custom method? > > > At the moment, this architecture seems a bit asymmetric if the __del__ > > method is not called. >
If you have resources in Python that need reliable open/close, lock/ unlock, etc. symmetry, use the with statement or try-finally in your Python code. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
