I don’t understand this python __del__ behaviour

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You cannot assume that __del__ will ever be called – it is not a place to hope that resources are automagically deallocated. If you want to make sure that a (non-memory) resource is released, you should make a release() or similar method and then call that explicitly (or use it in a context manager as pointed out by Thanatos in comments below).

At the very least you should read the __del__ documentation very closely, and then you should probably not try to use __del__. (Also refer to the gc.garbage documentation for other bad things about __del__)

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