to be fair though, __del__ did cause problems. when the app was exiting, PyOpenGL would release the GL context before my buffers were __del__'ed, so the __del__

to be fair though, __del__ did cause problems. when the app was exiting, PyOpenGL would release the GL context before my buffers were __del__'ed, so the __del__s tried to free a buffer that stopped existing and crashed. it'd be nice if those methods were called at a predictable time and not "sometime after the object's RC drops to zero, maybe".