does python have useless destructors?

[Aahz]

In article <e251b7ba.0406120221.15e75e9b at posting.google.com>,
David Turner <dkturner at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>The huge advantage that the RAII approach holds in this respect is
>that the user of the library just does what comes naturally - for
>example, he declares a file object and uses it.  He would have done
>that anyway.  He doesn't need to know whether or not it's a RAII
>object that needs a "with" or "using" or "dispose" or "try/finally"
>clause.

Do you know any RAII approach that does not depend on stack-based locals
semantics?  Python's global objects are extremely useful, and unless you
want to essentially create a new language, anything remotely resembling
pure RAII in the language core won't work.
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