In article <52ec84bc$0$29972$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:16:59 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > Creating a painting on canvas has two similar phases. Prepare a generic > > blank canvas stretched on a frame and coated with a white undercoat. > > Paint a particular picture. Would you say that the second step is not > > creating anything? > > A dubious analogy, since there are artists who would say that attacking > the canvas with a knife and setting the remains on fire count as a form > of artistic creation :-) That's __del__() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
