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

[Daniel Mark]

Hello all:

I am looking the sample code posted on PIL website

http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/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

[John Bokma]

Re: Do we need to delete &quot;ImageDraw .Draw&quot; after using it?

"Daniel Mark" <danielmarkhot@ 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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[Steve Holden]

Re: Do we need to delete &quot;ImageDraw .Draw&quot; after using it?

Daniel Mark wrote:

Hello all:
>
I am looking the sample code posted on PIL website

http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/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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[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: Do we need to delete &quot;ImageDraw .Draw&quot; after using it?

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.

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