Richard Oudkerk added the comment: On 15/06/2013 7:11pm, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Usually garbage collection will end up clearing the module's dict anyway. > > This is not true, since global objects might have a __del__ and then hold > the whole module dict alive through a reference cycle. Happily though, > PEP 442 is going to make that concern obsolete.
I did say "usually". > As for the interpreter shutdown itself, I have a pending patch (post-PEP 442) > to get rid of the globals cleanup as well. It may be better to merge the two > approaches. So you would just depend on garbage collection? Do you know how many refs/blocks are left at exit if one just uses garbage collection (assuming PEP 442 is in effect)? I suppose adding GC support to those modules which currently lack it would help a lot. BTW, I had a more complicated patch which keeps track of module dicts using weakrefs and purges any which were left after garbage collection has had a chance to free stuff. But most module dicts ended up being purged anyway, so it did not seem worth the hassle when a two-line patch mostly fixes the immediate problem. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18214> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
