[BangPypers] Simulating atexit using weakref (was How to run a block of code just before the interpreter is being exited ...)

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Anand B Pillai <
anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:

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> On Tuesday 10 September 2013 11:30 AM, Anand B Pillai wrote:
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> > Don't advise anyone to use this code - it is just to illustrate
> > the one of the ways in which weak references can be used. In
> > general it is better not to rely on the order of gc in your code
> > to implement a feature.
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> Here is the code in pastebin - http://pastebin.com/wmLduVBh


You can also achieve the same using __del__.

class Foo:
    def __del__(self):
        print "on exit"

foo = Foo()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print 3+4
    print 8+9