On 02/22/2015 05:13 AM, Cem Karan wrote: > Output: > From Evil Zombie: Surprise! > From Your Significant Other: Surprise! > > In this case, the user made an error (just as Marko said in his earlier > message), > and forgot about the callback he registered with the library. The callback > isn't > really rising from the dead; as you say, either its been garbage collected, > or it > hasn't been. However, you may not be ready for a callback to be called at > that > moment in time, which means you're surprised by unexpected behavior.
But the unexpected behavior is not a problem with Python, nor with your library -- it's a bug in the fellow-programmer's code, and you can't (or at least shouldn't) try to prevent those kinds of bugs from manifesting -- they'll just get bitten somewhere else by the same bug. -- ~Ethan~
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