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xapata on Nov 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: On the Beauty of Python's ExitStack (2015)

I'd argue the context manager concept is better than destructors, because it's more explicit.

BTW, Python does have the `__del__` special method. It's just that almost all usage of it would be better implemented via context manager.

bobbyi_settv on Nov 10, 2020 [–]

I think the idiomatic way is with weakref https://docs.python.org/3/library/weakref.html

Particularly note "finalize provides a straight forward way to register a cleanup function to be called when an object is garbage collected"

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