[Python-Dev] Need traceback expert to review patch 954922

[Greg Ewing]

"Brett C." <bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU>:

> Back in February, I tried to fix an issue of threads executed using
> 'threading' that did not shut themselves down before the interpreter
> started tearing down globals, the thread triggering an exception,
> and then a new exception being raised while trying to report the
> exception raised in the thread by accessing globals

Seems to me the way to fix this sort of thing properly is to
get rid of the need for explicitly clearing globals.

Now that we have a garbage collector, is it really necessary
any more? What would happen if we simply set sys.modules to
None and then invoked the collector?

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