Re: [Python-ideas] A way to tell the gc it's OK to delete an object with a __del__

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Chris Barker chris.barker@noaa.gov wrote:

I figure a language improvement will, at best get into the next minor version -- then it will be years? before you can count on most people using that version -- so proposing ideas is a whole different ball of wax than what I do operationally.

The next minor version of Py3 is 3.5, which is currently scheduled for a first alpha in February. If the feature misses that, the next minor release will be I think about 18 months later, give or take.

The next minor version of Py2 is 2.8 and will not be happening. http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/

ChrisA