Antoon, > Well yes that is why it is stupid to rely on the garbage collector to do > those things for you. That is why Greg Ewing already stated: > >> If your object has a method for explicitly making it release its >> resources, it would be better to use that rather than rely on >> the garbage collector.
I think that you are mistaken to the meaning of word "resources" in the above ... > foo1 = Bar() > foo2 = foo1 > del foo1 > > Should the object be cleaned up now or not? Seriously ? No, as the object is still being referenced by "foo2". And I do not see you explain anything either. :-( Also, what has that got to do anything with my example talking about the "__del__" method I posted ? As far as I can tell ? Nothing. Regards, Rudy Wieser P.s. Be sure to read my reply to Chris. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
