Re: (not) handling new programming idioms with grace

[Andrew Starks <andrew@...>]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:49 Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:

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This is important when you write code that deals with a resource that has to be released immediately and not asynchronously so you cannot rely on `__gc`, e.g. a database transaction, a mutex, arguably some file descriptors...

[1] https://docs.python.org/2.5/whatsnew/pep-343.html

What about calling collectgarnage(“collect”)?