On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 08:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > @atexit.register > def goodbye(): > print "Goodbye, terminating..." > > > However, there is one fundamental problem with this: atexit.register() > returns None. Since the above code corresponds to:: > > > def goodbye(): > print "Goodbye, terminating..." > goodbye = atexit.register(goodbye) > > the code registers goodbye but right after it binds goodbye to None!
While it wouldn't hurt to have atexit.register return the function it registered, this "problem" is only a problem if you wish to call the function manually, since atexit already registered the reference to the intended function before your reference to it gets rebound to None. Normally one would register a function with atexit precisely because they don't want to call it manually. -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
