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Tue Jul 30 21:58:58 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-July/127670.html

I'm very excited to see this happening! It's been a constant pain and
one of the things I've always regretted. Thanks Antoine!

--Guido

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> PEP 442 has now been committed in time for testing in Alpha 1.
>
> This paves the way for the removal of another well-known annoyance: the
> behaviour of module globals at shutdown. Now that reference cycles
> aren't a barrier to object finalization anymore, we shouldn't need
> to set module globals to None before trying to reclaim modules.
> (and then, we don't need to cache global functions for use in
> finalizers, either)
>
> I have a patch to suppress the hack in
> http://bugs.python.org/issue18214
> Once I get to add some tests, I would like to commit it soon too!
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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