[C++-sig] Re: boost:python:embedding

[Dirk Gerrits]

David Abrahams wrote:
> Dirk Gerrits <dirk at gerrits.homeip.net> writes:
> 
>> From the docs:
>>
>>int Py_AtExit(void (*func) ())
>>     Register a cleanup function to be called by Py_Finalize()
>>[snip]
>>Since Python's internal finallization will have completed before the
>>cleanup function, no Python APIs should be called by func.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if these docs are accurate; I checked into it once.  You
> might want to use the source (Luke).

It seems to me that the docs are accurate. call_ll_exitfuncs() is the 
very last thing done by Py_Finalize() in the CVS source 
(Python/pythonrun.c).

>>I assumed that the releasing would need to make Python API calls. But
>>perhaps I'm mistaken?
> 
> 
> No, you're correct.

Ok, atexit.register() it is then?

Dirk Gerrits