[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I looked at pep-0343, it looks interesting. It is not what I really > >> want (deterministic destruction) > >I think it's better. > Is there something specific you have in mind that makes you say that?... > Which, looks like you have a constructor (__enter__) and a destructor > (__exit__), which you can always count on being called. I am not sure > how that is better than C++-style RAII.
I didn't understand then. I thought by "deterministic destruction" you meant relying on what CPython does now, which is reference counting with destruction when the last reference is released. PEP 343 is closer to C++-style RAII. I haven't studied it enough to say what the differences really are. I do remember thinking C++ RAII was a nuisance because you had to create classes with destructors to do what other languages did with try/finally or the equivalent. So to be clear, I think PEP 343 is better than simply expecting the CPython reference counting system take care of releasing things when the scope exits. I'm not much of a C++ user and I don't claim anything about PEP 343 vs C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
