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RAII, but no GC?RAII, but no GC?Posted Jun 17, 2010 19:29 UTC (Thu) by alextingle (guest, #20593)In reply to: RAII, but no GC? by sbishop Parent article: The Managed Runtime Initiative
Python uses RAII, I believe.
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RAII, but no GC? Posted Jun 17, 2010 21:18 UTC (Thu) by tack (subscriber, #12542) [Link]
Not exactly. It's a peculiarity of (current versions of) CPython that RAII patterns can work, however there's nothing in the language that specifies that behavior, and you can't expect it from other implementations like Jython, or perhaps not even from future versions of CPython.
RAII, but no GC? Posted Jun 19, 2010 13:39 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Perhaps Alex was referring to to the 'with' statement: http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#with
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