From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:26:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backporting a small part of the socket.py changes from 2.3:  get rid
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.3c1~199
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7adc32ffa4215a398b38a6c38987d1fbf5a9ac05;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backporting a small part of the socket.py changes from 2.3:  get rid
of the socket wrapper __del__ method.  It isn't needed, and it prevents
cyclic structures containing socket objects (primarily on Windows, where
the wrapper is used) from getting garbage-collected.  People running
ZEO tests in Zope under Windows are acutely aware of this, as the
test driver prints an ever-growing gc.garbage list after each test.
---

diff --git a/Lib/socket.py b/Lib/socket.py
index e298f51f1399..5fac123c986e 100644
--- a/Lib/socket.py
+++ b/Lib/socket.py
@@ -140,9 +140,6 @@ class _socketobject:
         # Avoid referencing globals here
         self._sock = self.__class__._closedsocket()
 
-    def __del__(self):
-        self.close()
-
     def accept(self):
         sock, addr = self._sock.accept()
         return _socketobject(sock), addr