Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we are writing an application that needs some cleanup to be done if the > application is quit, normally (normal termination) or by a signal like > SIGINT or SIGTERM. I know that the __del__ method exists, but unless I'm > mistaken there is no guarantee as of when it will be called, and some > objects may have already been released (at lease I've had trouble in the > past accessing certain objects from inside __del__, probably since the > parent class's __del__ has to be called first, then it's objects are > already released by the time I need to do something with them). Another > method would be to implement something using the signal module and have > a callback that does all the cleanup when the app. is > quit/terminated/interrupted and have all the child classes override that > with their cleanup code. > > What is the community's point of view on the subject? > > Thanks, > Gabriel
atexit? <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-atexit.html> If it's only small things, there's try...finally, of course.. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list