Commented out __del__

LudovicRousseau · Jul 22, 2007 · 9f2198c · 9f2198c
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commit 9f2198c
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/smartcard/CardMonitoring.py b/smartcard/CardMonitoring.py
@@ -198,10 +198,12 @@ def __getattr__( self, name ):
         if self.instance:
             return getattr( self.instance, name )
 
-    def __del__(self):
-        if CardMonitoringThread.instance!=None:
-            CardMonitoringThread.instance.stop()
-            CardMonitoringThread.instance = None
+    # commented to avoid bad clean-up sequence of python where __del__ is called when
+    # some objects it uses are already gargabe collected
+    #def __del__(self):
+    #    if CardMonitoringThread.instance!=None:
+    #        CardMonitoringThread.instance.stop()
+    #        CardMonitoringThread.instance = None
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":