Latest recipes tagged "finalization"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/finalization/new/2011-07-02T18:42:08-07:00ActiveState Code RecipesCalling (C-level) finalizers without __del__ (Python)
2011-07-02T18:42:08-07:00Benjamin Petersonhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4170802/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577242-calling-c-level-finalizers-without-__del__/
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Python
recipe 577242
by <a href="/recipes/users/4170802/">Benjamin Peterson</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/ctypes/">ctypes</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/finalization/">finalization</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/weakref/">weakref</a>).
Revision 3.
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<p>This recipe is meant for Python classes wrapping ctypes bindings where a C-level finalizer must be invoked when the wrapper is destroyed. It uses weakref callbacks to avoid problems with <code>__del__</code>.</p>