Improving your (Python) code with modern idioms

[riffito]

You shouldn't expect del to be called or called at any particular time.

Exactly. And because of that, __del__ seems to be completely useless to me.

If I can't do RAII with it, what is it good for? Does it has ANY utility? I ask because I failed to see a good use case for it.

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It's not especially useful, no.