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Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, ezio.melotti, jcea, kaizhu, terry.reedy
Date	2011-05-21.20:34:04
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Message-id	<1306010045.45.0.17975371621.issue12075@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> my class also inherits from subprocess.Popen, which has a __del__ method, which might interfere w/ collection The doc says __del__ will prevent collection. > (although gc.garbage says otherwise ;). Do you mean that gc.garbage is empty, when it should not be? Have you tried replacing __del__ with an explicit close or cleanup method?

> my class also inherits from subprocess.Popen, which has a __del__ method, which might interfere w/ collection

The doc says __del__ *will* prevent collection.

> (although gc.garbage says otherwise ;).

Do you mean that gc.garbage is empty, when it should not be?

Have you tried replacing __del__ with an explicit close or cleanup method?

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Date	User	Action	Args
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