Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 442 aftermath: module globals at shutdown

Am 30.07.13 23:32, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

- it is held alive by a C extension: the main example is the locale module, which is held alive by _io and in turn keeps alive other Python modules (such as collections or re).

If the _locale module would use PEP 3121 (issue15662), this problem should go away. Regards, Martin