[Python-Dev] second opinion for proposed fix for bug #754449

[Guido van Rossum]

> Yeah.  To force this problem (couldn't trigger it) I set everything to 
> None in threading and then tried this.  It triggered the right error, 
> but the function registered with atexit also threw a fit.  But that is a 
> forced error since atexit will do its thing before teardown, right?

It better. :-)

> Regardless, I will try to go through the code and see if there are any 
> other points during the shutdown the reference a global and see if there 
> is a way to solve it cleanly.  Otherwise I guess people just need to 
> shutdown there threading instances properly.

Note that None is also a global... :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)