Nicolas Dumazet ha scritto:
> What is the reason of the "delete" name
for this function? "__del__"
> looks better, as I can see there are case where delete() isn't called.
The exact same question popped in my mind when I fixed
the error. I
think that it is not guaranteed that __del__ always get called on
interpreter exit, and that for this reason it is better not to rely on
__del__ for cleanups.
But I can't find more details than the simple "It is not guaranteed
that __del__() methods are called for objects that still [...]" from
the Python documentation =))
I haven't said to rely on "__del__". I wonder if __del__() may be called
explicitly in our wikipedia._flush ("_flush"?) function, instead of
'delete'.
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Leonida rispose: «Si, ma solo le donne di Sparta generano
uomini». (Plutarco, Vita di Licurgo, 14)