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Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Wed Mar 21 17:49:54 EDT 2012 
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.

-tkc
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