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Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed ... & Ruby
From: Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666@gmx.net>
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 22:35:13 CET
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 22:35:13 CET
In <duvjsk$2r0f$1@ulysses.news.tiscali.de>, robert wrote:
> * Ruby without refcounts provides no deterministic __del__ in
> non-circular refs ==> your type finally finally finally .close .close
> .close all the time
Which is what you should type in Python too as there's no guarantee that
`__del__()` will be called immidiatly when the file object goes out of
scope or isn't referenced anymore. The reference counting memory
management is an implementation detail.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
Received on Sun Apr 30 11:45:43 2006