[Distutils] [issue147] "test" command breaks 'atexit' handlers

[Brian Lauber]

New submission from Brian Lauber:

I wrote a module that registers an "atexit" handler.  However, when I executed the unit tests for this module via setuptools, the "atexit" handler would never be invoked:

      python ./setup.py test

The root cause of the issue is that fact that setuptool's "test" command un-loads modules between each test run.  This means that the 'atexit' module is unavailable when Python exits, which means that the callbacks are never invoked.

It is possible to prevent setuptools from un-loading the 'atexit' module by importing 'atexit' at the beginning of the setup.py file.  This allows the 'atexit' handlers to run, but they ultimately fail because all of the modules have already been unloaded.

You can find a more complete write-up on the issue here:

https://briandamaged.org/blog/?p=1181

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nosy: Brian.Lauber
priority: bug
status: unread
title: "test" command breaks 'atexit' handlers

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