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Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap?

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Date Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:54:29 -0500
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On 03/22/12 12:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:14:47 -0500, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> Given that you can't trust __del__, is there a legitimate
>> use case for it?
>
> I've never found the need to write one.

I've found the need to write them...then been frustrated by 
things falling out of namespace reach, and found that context 
managers do a much more reliable/understandable job, saving what 
little sanity I had left. ;-)

So I'd say that __del__ was really only useful (for some sick, 
sick definition of "useful") in versions of Python before 
context-managers were readily available.

-tkc

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  Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2012-03-22 08:14 -0500
    Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-22 17:26 +0000
      Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-03-22 12:54 -0500
      Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-22 15:27 -0400
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