March 2, 2000
5:14 p.m.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:
... But it is just as likely that calling __del__ on a partially uninitialized object is a bad mistake, and I am doing all these cases a favor by not calling __del__ when __init__ failed!
Any opinions? If nobody speaks up, I'll make the change.
+1 on calling __del__ IFF __init__ completes successfully. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/