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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:34:00 +1100
Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] Class decorator to capture the creation and deletion of objects
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:26 PM, alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/02/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Alex Martelli <aleax@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> At this point, all entries in the table should be deleted; query should
>>> return an empty list!
>>
>>
>> You can't actually depend on del resulting in __del__ being called.
>
>
> Mind those attributions, Chris, it was actually Sangeeth Saravanaraj who
> wrote what you quoted. I'm preeeeetty sure Alex knows all about __del__ :)

Whoops, yes. I deleted a header by mistake. Sorry Alex! And thanks
Alex for pulling me up on it. (We have a few of those situations.
Fortunately we have Steven and Stephen, otherwise we'd have a lot more
of it.)

ChrisA