Message 316434 - Python tracker

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The reason tp_del has remained undocumented is that it's now obsolete.  You should use tp_finalize instead:
https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject.tp_finalize

tp_finalize is roughly the C equivalent of __del__ (tp_del was something else, despite the name).