[Python-Dev] generalized resource alloc and de-alloc (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 01:57:35 +0100

From: Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>

Here's an even simpler version:

with LHS = EXPR: BODY is equivalent to LHS = EXPR try: BODY finally: del LHS

It would not work in Jython as expected, because we have no ref counting, and gc is not deterministic. And I think in general that adding ref counting based feature to Python as a language (not impl) is a bad idea.

regards.