# DelayDelete

from direct.distributed.DelayDelete import DelayDelete

The DelayDelete class is a special class whose sole purpose is management of the DistributedObject.delayDelete() counter.
Normally, a DistributedObject has a delayDelete count of 0. When we need to bracket a region of code that cannot tolerate a DistributedObject being deleted, we call do.delayDelete(1) to increment the delayDelete count by 1. While the count is nonzero, the object will not be deleted. Outside of our critical code, we call do.delayDelete(0) to decrement the delayDelete count and allow the object to be deleted once again.
Explicit management of this counter is tedious and risky. This class implicitly manages the counter by incrementing the count in the constructor, and decrementing it in the destructor. This guarantees that every increment is matched up by a corresponding decrement.
Thus, to temporarily protect a DistributedObject from deletion, simply create a DelayDelete object. While the DelayDelete object exists, the DistributedObject will not be deleted; when the DelayDelete object ceases to exist, it may be deleted.

## Inheritance:

DelayDelete:

## Methods of DelayDelete:

__del__
__init__

__del__ def __del__(self) Undocumented function.

__init__ def __init__(self, distObj) Undocumented function.