__del__ not called?

[bruno at modulix]

Gregor Horvath wrote:
> Felipe Almeida Lessa schrieb:
> 
>>>>>del B
>>>>># We'll to tell him to collect the garbage here, but
>>
>> ... # usually it should not be necessary.
> 
> Thanks. If I do
> 
> del B
> 
> then the __del__ of A gets called.
> That surprises me.

Why ?

> I thought that B gets del'd by python when it goes
> out of scope?

It does. What you have to understand here is that in your script, B
being in the global (read : module) scope, it doesnt goes out of scope
before the script's execution's done. By that time, it's too late to do
anything with stdin/stdout/stderr.

Just add this to the script:

def foo():
  b = B()
  print "in foo"

foo()

> Do I manually have to del all class objects, so that their class
> attributes get gc'd ????

Absolutely not. The only times I use del is when I want to cleanup a
namespace from temp vars no longer used (usually a module's namespace
with some hairy tricks at load time).



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