On Jun 5, 9:07 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Robert Dailey<rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to create an object in Python that will clean itself up > > at function exit? I realize destruction of objects may not occur > > immediately and can be garbage collected, but this functionality would > > still be great to have. Consider the following function: > > > def do_stuff(): > > foo = scope_object() > > # Do stuff... > > foo.Cleanup() > > > It would be nice to avoid the explicit "Cleanup()" call above, and > > have 'foo' just act as if it has a C++ destructor and evoke some > > method at the exit point of a function. > > This is exactly what the new `with` statement lets you do. You just > need to define an appropriate context manager. With one, you can code > that as: > > def do_stuff(): > with scope_object() as foo: > #do stuff > > More info: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ > > Cheers, > Chris > --http://blog.rebertia.com
Thanks! This is PERFECT! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
