Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Cocoa/Objective-C equiv to __del__?

[Zachery B. <zb...@ur...>]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 01:56 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 10:55 America/New_York, Zachery Bir wrote:
>
>> Since we're not using __init__() for Cocoa-derived objects (delegates  
>> and the like), is there an analogous means for providing for cleanup,  
>> like the __del__() method?
>
> dealloc is what you're looking for, but I'd imagine __del__ may also  
> work, because the Python object doesn't get collected until the same  
> time (or later) that it would get collected from ObjC land.

Cool.

> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ 
> ObjC_classic/Classes/NSObject.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000050/> dealloc
>
> I've never tried overriding this from PyObjC, but I would imagine it  
> does the right thing.  I'd take a look at the PyObjC examples and/or  
> sourcecode to see if anyone is using it (or __del__).

Thanks, yeah, looks like the example apps use __del__ (with comments  
that say: "dealloc in Obj-C" :)

Zac