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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1996-08-09 20:59:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1996-08-09 20:59:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 45687bb9761be8ec84ed94b50be73953b7ef770f (patch) | |
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| parent | 0bbf253e97f3ad04436b26ad4ba2a539f99f1116 (diff) | |
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Add warning about exceptions in __del__ being ignored.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex index e017e26..d1e8b63 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex @@ -634,6 +634,10 @@ Note that \code{del x} doesn't directly call \code{x.__del__} --- the former decrements the reference count for \code{x} by one, but \code{x.__del__} is only called when its reference count reaches zero. +\strong{Warning:} due to the precarious circumstances under which +\code{__del__} methods are executed, exceptions that occur during +their execution are \emph{ignored}. + \item[{\tt __repr__(self)}] Called by the \verb@repr()@ built-in function and by string conversions (reverse or backward quotes) to compute the string representation of an object. |