Destruction of generator objects

[Stefan Bellon]

On Sat, 11 Aug, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:50:33 +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:

> > But then, even when terminating the interpreter, __del__ is not
> > called.
> 
> Because that is not guaranteed by the language reference.  The reason
> why it is a bad idea to depend on `__del__` for important resource
> management.

Ok, but then we are back to my initial question of whether the destroy
of

    def get_data(obj):
        iter = make_iter(obj)
        while more(iter):
            yield next(iter)
        destroy(iter)

can be guaranteed somehow in Python 2.4 while it can be done in Python
2.5 like follows:

    def get_data(obj):
        iter = make_iter(obj)
        try:
            while more(iter):
                yield next(iter)
        finally:
            destroy(iter)

And then the answer is: no, it cannot be done in 2.4 (like Alex
Martelli already said ;-)

-- 
Stefan Bellon