How do I correctly clean up a Python object?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/865115/how-do-i-correctly-clean-up-a-python-object

Question links:
[Python doesn't guarantee]: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#customization

Answer 1 links:
[atexit.register]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/atexit.html#atexit.register

Answer 2 links:
[weakref.finalize]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/weakref.html#weakref.finalize
[Finalizer Objects]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/weakref.html#finalizer-objects
[Comparing finalizers with ]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/weakref.html#comparing-finalizers-with-del-methods

Answer 3 links:
[Clint's answer]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/865272/321973
[contextlib.contextmanager]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.contextmanager
[contextlib.closing]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.closing

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