Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:43:26 -0400:
> ...
> And I don't recall the last time I saw a __del__ in third-party code I
> was examining.
>
>
> What's your use case for del?
I had to use one a few days ago:
To call the "unlink" method of a "minidom" object when
its "container" is destroyed.
It would have been possible to let the cyclic garbage
collector find and eliminate the cyclic "minidom" objects.
But, DOMs may be large and I create lots of them in
a short time (each in its own container)...
Dieter
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