From 4b80085dddba9cfb06aa3ee74b65371a209c5ab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:54:52 +0000 Subject: Fix for SF bug #485678. slot_tp_descr_set(): When deleting an attribute described by a descriptor implemented in Python, the descriptor's __del__ method is called by the slot_tp_descr_set dispatch function. This is bogus -- __del__ already has a different meaning. Renaming this use of __del__ is renamed to __delete__. --- Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 1964d61..69f80ee 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ XXX Release date: ??-Dec-2001 XXX Type/class unification and new-style classes +- The "delete attribute" method of descriptor objects is called + __delete__, not __del__. In previous releases, it was mistakenly + called __del__, which created an unfortunate overloading condition + with finalizers. (The "get attribute" and "set attribute" methods + are still called __get__ and __set__, respectively.) + Core and builtins Extension modules -- cgit v0.12