Dynamically change __del__

[Lie Ryan]

On 05/01/10 05:39, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 05/01/10 05:16, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to be very clever:
> <snip>
>>
>> Apparently Python calls the class attribute __del__ rather than the
>> instance's __del__ attribute. Is that a bug or a feature? Is there any
>> way to implement the desired functionality without introducing an
>> additional destroy_has_been_called attribute?
>>
>>
>> (I know that invocation of __del__ is unreliable, this is just an
>> additional safeguard to increase the likelihood of bugs to get noticed).
> 
> All Exception in __del__ is ignored for various reasons. It's safer if
> you call destroy from inside __del__() so you cannot forget to remember
> to call it manually.
> 
> def __del__(self):
>     self.destroy()

Never mind that, just realized you're asking for a different thing.