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What does del do for an instance of a wrapped C class?

Does del call the destructor of a wrapped C class?

Mar 1st, 2000 21:44
Nathan Wallace, unknown unknown, Remco Gerlich

For example, let's say 'my_object' is a instance of wrapped C++ class.

  >>del my_object

All it's supposed to do is remove the name from the current namespace.
_If_ nothing else is still referring to it, then it may be removed, and
the destructor would be called then. You can't assume that 'del' will
call your destructor.