Embedding Python - Deleting a class instance
Bue Krogh Vedel-Larsen
hesterumpe at tiscali.dk
Tue Jun 21 09:15:08 EDT 2005
Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in
news:mailman.698.1119357219.10512.python-list at python.org:
>
> Unless there's a cycle and GC gets involved, all there is to deleting
> *anything* in Python is correctly managing the refcount. On the other
> hand, you can never free an object while it is still reachable. Some
> local name "x" may never spontaneously lose the thing it refers to.
Thanks for the replies. I've solved it, it was a kind of cycle: When
creating the instance it registered itself with my code, and was supposed
to unregister itself when deleted, but since I kept a copy of the object in
the program it never got unregistered, and thus never deleted...
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