[Python-Dev] PEP 442: Safe object finalization (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 18 14:51:35 CEST 2013

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2013 21:05:48 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > Resurrection > The process by which a finalizer creates a new reference to an > object in a CI. This can happen as a quirky but supported > side-effect of _del_ methods.

I really like the PEP overall, but could we at least get the option to have cases of object resurrection spit out a warning? And a clear rationale for not turning on such a warning by default? Where would you put the option? As for the rationale, it's simply compatibility: resurrection works without warnings right now :)

Command line, probably. However, you're right that's something we can consider later - for the PEP it's enough that it still works, and we just avoid calling the del method a second time.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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