No destructor

[Alex Martelli]

"peter.foreman" <peter.foreman at tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message
news:39a1711d_2 at news2.vip.uk.com...
> Hi,
> I'm fairly new to Python, so apologies if this has cropped up before.  As
I
> understand it, there is no destructor/finalise in Python.  What was the
> reason behind this omission?

If a class defines a __del__ method, that is exactly the destructor aka
finalizer for its instances.  The __del__ for base classes, if any, must
be explicitly called (just like for the __init__, aka constructor).


Alex