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Do we need to delete "ImageDraw.Draw " after using it?

Hello all:

I am looking the sample code posted on PIL website
http://www.pythonware.com/library/pi.../imagedraw.htm

############### ############### ############### ###
<<Draw a Grey Cross Over an Image>>

import Image, ImageDraw

im = Image.open("len a.pgm")

draw = ImageDraw.Draw( im)
draw.line((0, 0) + im.size, fill=128)
draw.line((0, im.size[1], im.size[0], 0), fill=128)
del draw # ===>>>Why we should delete this object draw?

# write to stdout
im.save(sys.std out, "PNG")
############### ############### ############### ####

Is there any general rule that we must delete the object after using
it?
Thank you
-Daniel

Sep 20 '06 #1
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"Daniel Mark" <da***********@ gmail.comwrote:
Is there any general rule that we must delete the object after using
it?
In general: if the object is not destroyed when it goes out of scope (but
later) and uses precious resources [1], or if a special clean up is
required, you should delete it explicitly.
[1] like file handles

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Sep 20 '06 #2
Daniel Mark wrote:
Hello all:

I am looking the sample code posted on PIL website
http://www.pythonware.com/library/pi.../imagedraw.htm

############### ############### ############### ###
<<Draw a Grey Cross Over an Image>>

import Image, ImageDraw

im = Image.open("len a.pgm")

draw = ImageDraw.Draw( im)
draw.line((0, 0) + im.size, fill=128)
draw.line((0, im.size[1], im.size[0], 0), fill=128)
del draw # ===>>>Why we should delete this object draw?

# write to stdout
im.save(sys.std out, "PNG")
############### ############### ############### ####

Is there any general rule that we must delete the object after using
it?
Just consider it good hygiene.

regards
Steve
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Sep 20 '06 #3
Steve Holden wrote:
>Is there any general rule that we must delete the object after using
it?
Just consider it good hygiene.
in this specific case, it may not be obvious for the casual reader that
the global "draw" variable will contain an indirect reference to the
original image object, so even if you throw away (or replace) the "im"
variable with something else, the original image will still be present
in memory.

if you put the same code inside a function, you can safely leave the
garbage handling to Python.

</F>

Sep 21 '06 #4

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