[Python-Dev] Re: atexit missing an unregister method

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Nick Jacobson wrote:
> You're right.  try/finally takes care of my sample scenario.  There may
> still be a case to be made for atexit.unregister(), though.

No. Anybody in need of such a feature can easily unregister it.

allregistrations=[]

def _run():
  for fn in allregistrations:
    fn()

atexit.register(_run)

def register(fn):
  allregistrations.append(fn)

def unregister(fn):
  allregistrations.remove(fn)

Regards,
Martin