[Python-Dev] Product iteration

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> The argument about finalization is specious.  You should not write
> code that depends on current finalization semantics to do things like
> closing files.  It's relying on an implementation-dependent feature
> that is not part of the language spec.  (Just try it on JPython.)

I know, and I'm not. But the thing is, there are plenty of users of
CPython which do rely on this feature -- so you're going to break
people's code. Not nice.

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