[Tutor] special call for deleted objects?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jan 30 03:31:00 EST 2004


> I've got a list of class instances, and under certain conditions, I
want to
> replace them with None. However, these instances should do some
cleanup
> before they dissapear.

I seem to recall there is a __del__ method you can add to your class.

It doesn't get called until the class is actually garbage collected
however so the behaviour is a little unpredictable.

Alan G.




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