Re: [Gzz] Oct 14th (vegai)

[Tuukka Hastrup]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> Not really, this is well documented: while CPython does reference counting,
> Jython uses Java's garbage collection. 
> 
> I actually think that python's language definition does not specify
> when a will be deleted so the fact that it works in C is just luck.

Yep, Python Language Reference says: "Some objects contain references to
``external'' resources such as open files or windows. It is understood
that these resources are freed when the object is garbage-collected, but
since garbage collection is not guaranteed to happen, such objects also
provide an explicit way to release the external resource, usually a
close() method. Programs are strongly recommended to explicitly close such
objects."

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