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Thu Jul 22 14:00:46 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102185.html

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:51:57 +0100
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 
> That's an option. I just remember Tim bringing up something about that
> approach that didn't quite work as a complete replacement for __del__.
> 
> Basically the whole setting a module's globals to None was done before gc
> came into the language. Now that it's there it seems that it might work to
> simply let gc clean up the module itself.

There is a patch at http://bugs.python.org/issue812369 for GC-based
module shutdown, but it doesn't actually remove the setting of module
globals to None. I think further testing and experimentation would be
required to validate it.

Regards

Antoine.

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