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Re:Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python by ngoldbaum on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:10PM (#8931440)
My favorite new feature is PEP-442 [0]. Basically, it's now safe to add a __del__ method to a class without worrying about memory leaks caused by reference cycles.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0442/

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Re:Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python by pekk on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:22PM (#8931830)
Most people should not be writing __del__ methods at all, especially if what they are trying to do is deterministic cleanup.
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