[Python-Dev] Design question: call __del__ only after successful __init__?

[Christian Tismer]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> OK, so we're down to this one point: if __del__ resurrects the object,
> should __del__ be called again later?  Additionally, should
> resurrection be made illegal?

[much stuff]

Just a random note:

What if we had a __del__ with zombie behavior?

Assume an instance that is about to be destructed.
Then __del__ is called via normal method lookup.
What we want is to let this happen only once.
Here the Zombie:
After method lookup, place a dummy __del__ into the
to-be-deleted instance dict, and we are sure that
this does not harm.
Kinda "yes its there, but a broken link ". The zombie
always works by doing nothing. Makes some sense?

ciao - chris

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