Is it really OK to do object closeing/disposing in __del__?

Question

I have been thinking about how I write classes in Python. More specifically how the constructor is implemented and how the object should be destroyed. I don\'t want to rely

Answer 1

Not necessarily. You'll encounter problems when you have cyclic references. Eli Bendersky does a good job of explaining this in his blog post:

• Safely using destructors in Python