[Twisted-Python] cleanup in twisted

[Joachim Boomberschloss]

--- Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> 
> On May 22, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Joachim Boomberschloss
> wrote:
> 
> > I just jotted down a little mechanism for
> cleaning-up
> > in Twisted, and I wanted to see if:
> > 1. other people think it's needed
> > 2. other people manage to use it
> >
> > What this does is enable one to define a
> __cleanup__
> > method which gets call either when the instance is
> > deleted, or when the reactor shuts down. It can
> return
> > a dereffed that delays the shutdown. The benefit
> is
> > being able to define communication-related stuff
> in
> > the cleanup method, which is not so useful to do
> in
> > __del__.
> 
> This is just begging for object leaks, because
> __del__ disables  
> aspects of cyclic GC.

Hmmpf. What does this mean, and is there a simple way
of resolving it?

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