Getters and Setters

[tim_one at email.msn.com]

[about whether Tim's GetterSetter code created cycles]

[Bernhard Herzog <herzog at online.de]
> The cycle doesn't involve self, but self's dict will hold an
> indirect reference to itself. The instance object will be
> deleted, so it's __del__ method is called, but its __dict__
> won't be deleted:

Ah -- got it.  Thanks for the explanation.  self.__del__ is called,
though, so the cycles are easy to break:

def __del__(self):
    self.__dict__.clear()

even-tested-it-this-time<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim




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