[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

> > Even if he is, I don't see it happening.  Modifying the garbage
> > collector to act sooner on one particular type of object when we already
> > have good, if very mildly inconvenient, solutions is not going to be a
> > high-priority item -- especially if it has /any/ negative impact on
> > performance.
>
> I agree this is not likely to ever happen. It's especially problematic
> that we'd be making this a requirement for implementations other than
> CPython.
>

Again -- this is a thought experiment, not a proposal, but:

It's only relevant for other implementations -- cPython already cleans up
the file object (any object) when it is no longer referenced.

And I do move the thought experiment along -- it was never specific to file
objects, but rather:

In the case of temporary objects that are never referred to outside a
single line of code -- delete it right away.

in theory, this could help all implementations leave a little less garbage
lying around.

Whether that is possible or desirable, I have no idea.

-CHB







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