[Tutor] Replacement for __del__

[Alan Gauld]

"Strax-Haber, Matthew (LARC-D320)" <matthew.strax-haber at nasa.gov> wrote


> My class sub-types dict. In __init__, there is a call to
> self.update(pickle.load(<some file>)). For some reason, this triggers
> __del__. Why?
> 

A pure guess, but maybe the pickle load creates a new instance which 
replaces the original which then gets garbage collected and calls del?

Otherwise go to the source, or step into it with a debugger

Just a thought,

Alan G.