On 2008-12-20 21:20, Leif Walsh wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> These long exit times are usually caused by the garbage collection >> of objects. This can be a very time consuming task. > > In that case, the question would be "why is the interpreter collecting > garbage when it knows we're trying to exit anyway?".
It cannot know until the very end, because there may still be some try: ... except SystemExit: ... somewhere in the code waiting to trigger and stop the system exit. If you want a really fast exit, try this: import os os.kill(os.getpid(), 9) But you better know what you're doing if you take this approach... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 20 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2008-12-02: Released mxODBC.Connect 1.0.0 http://python.egenix.com/ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com