On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:51:57 +0100 Brett Cannon <br...@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. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
