[Python-3000] PEPs update (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri May 11 01:38:33 CEST 2007

On 5/10/07, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

The PEP for eliminating del seemed straight-forward at the outset, but the use case you presented doesn't seem to have a clean substitute (as it requires the object to be alive to finalize it). Other use cases do have a clean solution. So, I'll go forward with the PEP but am a bit disheartened that it is going to have to advise try/finally or somesuch for the harder cases.

You've probably already seen these, but just in case you haven't, there have been two alternatives to del posted recently to the cookbook:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/519621 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/519610

Of course, they have their own sets of problems, but maybe there's something worthwhile in there for the PEP.

STeVe

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