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All Borrow Checkers Are Bastards (ABCAB - 12312) (lemmy.world)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

You can do some kind of RAII in python with the with keyword. Only works for local variables though, where it's easy to free resources manually

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    But if you ever forget the with keyword, you have a leak. With proper RAII the resource acquisition and release is a property of the object's type and impossible to forget. RAII doesn't just mean "resource acquisition is initialization", it also implies "destruction is resource release".

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