On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]_zealand> wrote:
> In message <[email protected]>, Chris > Rebert wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > > >> In message <[email protected]>, Lie Ryan wrote: > >> > >>> Since in python nothing is guaranteed about implicit file close ... > >> > >> It is guaranteed that objects with a reference count of zero will be > >> disposed. > > > >> In my experiments, this happens immediately. > > > > Experiment with an implementation other than CPython and prepare to be > > surprised. > > Any implementation that doesn’t do reference-counting is brain-damaged. > -- > Why? Nothing in the Python spec calls for reference-counting. And (AFAIK) everything that runs on the JVM or CLR uses garabage collection and not reference counting. Have you heard of those things before? They're rather popular.
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