destructor not called

[Roy Smith]

In article 
<2a7dea43-378a-423f-a5bb-d904b7f97869 at p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
 Marcin201 <marcin201 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a class which uses a temporary directory for storing data.  I
> would like that directory to be removed when the class is no longer
> used.  I have tried removing the temporary directory from the class
> destructor, however, it was never called.

The short answer is that destruction in Python is non-deterministic (a rude 
shock if you're used to C++).  What you probably want is the new "with" 
statement (http://docs.python.org/ref/with.html).