Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>: >>> the polite thing to do is to delete references to it when you're done >>> with it. >> >> I disagree with that recommendation. You should do the natural thing and >> not care who holds references to who. > > I don't understand this. What is "the natural thing" if not to delete > references to an object when you are done with it? Normally you just let > things go out of scope, but if that won't happen, you have to take active > steps, such as calling del or setting the reference to None.
Obviously, if you are hoarding objects in a collection, you're going to land in trouble. What I mean, though, is that you shouldn't think you need to create object destructors where you routinely set all members to None. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
