Comment by sgarland

I love Python, but the sheer number of caveats and warnings for __del__ makes me question if this person has ever read the docs [0]. My favorite WTF:

> It is possible (though not recommended!) for the __del__() method to postpone destruction of the instance by creating a new reference to it. This is called object resurrection.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...