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Tue Jun 15 17:40:26 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045396.html

> My only problem with PEP 310 is that the solution it proposes doesn't
> address the problem that the user of a class still needs to be the one to
> take care of ordering cleanup. So I would have prefered something that the
> coder of a class uses to tell the interpreter "any instance of this object
> needs deterministic cleanup", so the user can just be carefree when using
> that class.

This is a fallacy, because the user still has to order the cleanup by
using the correct decorator.  We can't afford to decorate *every*
function with this mechanism (method calls are already too expensive).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Object finalization for local (ie function) scopes