[Python-Dev] Design question: call __del__ only after successful __init__?

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:50:16 -0500 (EST) 

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes:

    TP> (surely not compatibility w/ JPython -- JPython doesn't invoke
    TP> __del__ methods at all by magic, right?  or is that changing,
    TP> and that's what's driving this?).

No, JPython doesn't invoke __del__ methods by magic, and I don't have
any plans to change that.

-Barry