[Zope] __del__ not being called.

[John Sutherland]

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 07:53:09PM -0400, Garion wrote:
> > For some reason, in my product, the __del__(self) is not being called
> > when I delete an instance of it.. I currently have it defined as:
> >
> >     def __del__(self):
> >         raise "DEBUG", "TEST"
> In python, the __del__ method doesn't get called until every
> reference to the
> object has disappeared and it is being garbage collected. The "del foo"
> statement jsut decreases the reference count of foo by 1 (and when it hits
> zero, it is garbage collected).

Doah... I guess it plainly obvious I'm not a python person eh? Just learning
it.. But I definitly like it..

How to I know when an instance is deleted?? I need this to be able to remove
a record in a DB.. Any suggestions?


--John