[issue25619] Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType'.... thrown on exit

2015-11-14 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, well, that is part of the fragility of python2's shutdown garbage collection, and one of the reasons it got improved. Changing the name of a function can change the order things get retrieved from various internal dictionaries, because they are hash

[issue25619] Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType'.... thrown on exit

2015-11-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, python2 shutdown has this problem: modules and their attributes are set to None during interpreter shutdown. Things are much better in python3. If you want to avoid the error messages, finalize the objects explicitly (making sure to break gc cycles)

[issue25619] Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType'.... thrown on exit

2015-11-13 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Best practice, by the way, is to be explicit about the scope of any resource and clean it up before program end...this is often done by using the context manager protocol. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue25619] Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType'.... thrown on exit

2015-11-13 Thread terry
New submission from terry: The attached code generates this output: init called finished init init called finished init init called finished init initPorts done alldone destroying /sys/class/gpio/gpio16/ destroying /sys/class/gpio/gpio6/ Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no

[issue25619] Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType'.... thrown on exit

2015-11-13 Thread terry
python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue25619> > _______ -- title: Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' thrown on exit -> Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' thrown on exit __