[Python-3000] PEP: Eliminate __del__

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 04/05/2007 20.35, Adam Olsen wrote:

> Any attempt that keeps the entire contents of __dict__ alive is
> doomed.  It's likely to contain a cycle back to the original object,
> and avoiding that is the whole point of jumping through these hoops.

Uh? If __dict__ contains a cycle back to the original object, then the object 
is part of a cycle already, with or without getting an additional reference to 
the __dict__ within the finalization callback.

And if there's no cycle, you're not creating one by just referencing __dict__.
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Giovanni Bajo