Best way to disconnect from ldap?

[Tycho Andersen]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 03/21/12 15:54, Chris Kaynor wrote:
> >As Chris Rebert pointed out, there is no guarantee as to when the
> >__del__ method is called. CPython will generally call it immediately,
> >however if there are reference cycles it may never call it
> 
> And more maddeningly, modules/objects used/called from within the
> __del__ may have already gone out of scope, producing
> head-scratching errors.  I've been bitten by this enough times that
> I just stopped using __del__ completely.

I've had similar experiences. In fact, in light of all this - why does
__del__ exist at all? Novice python users may (reasonably) assume it
behaves similarly to a C++ destructor (even though the docs warn
otherwise).

Given that you can't trust __del__, is there a legitimate use case for
it?

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