On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11:45:24 PM UTC, ooo...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 11:02:17 PM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:51 AM, ooomzay wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Taking a really simple situation:
> >
> > class Foo:
> > def __init__(self):
> > self.self = self
> > print("Creating a Foo")
> > def __del__(self):
> > print("Disposing of a Foo")
> >
> > foo = Foo()
> > foo = 1
> >
> > When do you expect __del__ to be called?
>
> At the point of (re)assignment: "foo = 1"
Oh... I now see there is a (non-weak) self reference in there.
So in this case it would be orphaned. It is a design error and should be
recoded. I don't care how it is detected for current purposes.
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