Matt Nordhoff wrote: > 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..
Huh, I totally didn't know that atexit is only run on normal terminations. Oops. Never mind. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list