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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? |
| Date | 2012-03-22 15:27 -0400 |
| References | (2 earlier) <CALvWhxvq-KO0ZxMwo-A7ieLyULHh95LAAiLon3zqBgMixZpFbA@mail.gmail.com> <4F6A4D02.6020403@tim.thechases.com> <mailman.885.1332422068.3037.python-list@python.org> <4f6b60b2$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4F6B6755.7000104@tim.thechases.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On 3/22/2012 1:54 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > 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? It is part of original or early Python and pretty well superceded by cyclic gc (which does not work for object with __del__ *because* of the unreliability), explicit close methods, and now context managers. >> >> 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. ;-) Which is one reason they were added ;-). > 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. And before cyclic gc, which does a better job of ordering deletions. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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Best way to disconnect from ldap? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-03-21 19:30 +0000
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? "J. Cliff Dyer" <jcd@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2012-03-21 16:21 -0400
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-03-21 13:34 -0700
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2012-03-21 13:54 -0700
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
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2012-03-22 16:02 -0500
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-03-22 06:27 -0700
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2012-03-22 09:00 -0500
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-04-05 18:38 +0000
Re: Best way to disconnect from ldap? Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> - 2012-04-05 20:56 +0200
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