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Fri Dec 8 00:35:30 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070282.html

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Also, if the interpreter invokes, say, threading._shutdown():
> that's also "user-screwable", as a user may put something else
> into threading._shutdown.

Although it would require being somewhat more deliberate,
since threading._shutdown clearly has something to do
with threading, whereas the atexit mechanism could get
screwed up by someone who wasn't even thinking about
what effect it might have on threading.

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