[Python-Dev] Class destructor (original) (raw)

Nick Maclaren nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk
Wed Feb 28 19:00:55 CET 2007


"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

Well, you could use a custom metaclass with a tpdealloc or whatever.

Yes, I thought of that, but a custom metaclass to provide one callback is pretty fair overkill!

But I just mainly meant that a PyCObject is almost as good as a weakref for certain purposes -- i.e. it's got a pointer and a callback.

Ah. Yes. Thanks for suggesting it - if it is the simplest way, I may as well do it.

You could of course also use weak references, but that's a bit more awkward as well.

Yes. And they aren't a technology I have used (in Python), so I would have to find out about them. Attributes etc. I have already played with.

Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: nmm1 at cam.ac.uk Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679



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