__del__ never called?

[MinRK]

Is the `__del__` method supposed to be totally ignored by Cython classes?

This case:

cdef class C(object):

    def __del__(self):

        print 'del'

    def __dealloc__(self):

        print 'dealloc'

When I do:

c = C()

del c

I just get 'dealloc'

The docs say that dealloc is the corollary for cinit, which I had interpreted as meaning that del still exists, just as init does.

Same behavior on 0.15.1 and 0.17pre

-MinRK

[Czarek Tomczak]

From the documentation:

http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/special_methods.html#finalization-method-dealloc

Note

 

There is no __del__() method for extension types.

Regards,

Czarek