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    Add __del__ callbacks. They are too useful to leave out. · 7ad2d1eb
    Guido van Rossum authored
    XXX Remaining problems:
    
    - The GC module doesn't know about these; I think it has its reasons
      to disallow calling __del__, but for now, __del__ on new-style
      objects is called when the GC module discards an object, for better
      or for worse.
    
    - The code to call a __del__ handler is really ridiculously
      complicated, due to all the different debug #ifdefs.  I've copied
      this from the similar code in classobject.c, so I'm pretty sure I
      did it right, but it's not pretty. :-(
    
    - No tests yet.
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