2010/7/22 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>: > 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. Also, it seems to have been stalled by static globals in extension modules that the gc doesn't know about. -- Regards, Benjamin
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