On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 13:00, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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. > Yep, it was agreed that for this to happen someone would have to write the patch and see what broke. -Brett > > 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/brett%40python.org >
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