On 03/22/12 12:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:14:47 -0500, Tycho Andersen wrote:
Given that you can't trust __del__, is there a legitimate
use case for it?
I've never found the need to write one.
I've found the need to write them...then been frustrated by
things falling out of namespace reach, and found that context
managers do a much more reliable/understandable job, saving what
little sanity I had left. ;-)
So I'd say that __del__ was really only useful (for some sick,
sick definition of "useful") in versions of Python before
context-managers were readily available.
-tkc
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