Re: [Python-Dev] Garbage announcement printed on interpreter shutdown

On Sep 10, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

2010/9/10 Fred Drake :

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

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IMO this runs contrary to the decision we made when DeprecationWarnings were made silent by default: it spews messages not only at developers, but also at users, who don't need it and probably are going to be quite confused by it,

Agreed; this should be silent by default.

+1. I suggest to enable it only when Py_DEBUG (or Py_TRACE_REFS or Py_REF_DEBUG?) is defined.

Would it be possible to treat it the same way as a deprecation warning, and show it under the same conditions? It would be nice to know if my Python program is leaking uncollectable objects without rebuilding the interpreter.