On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:29 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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? There are much better ways to do memory management / garbage collection; especially when dealing with large applications. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
