[Python-Dev] Problem between deallocation of modules and func_globals

[Brett Cannon]

On 1/18/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Brett Cannon schrieb:
> > Anybody have any ideas on how to deal with this short of rewriting
> > some codecs stuff so that they don't depend on global state in the
> > module or just telling me to just live with it?
>
> There is an old patch by Armin Rigo ( python.org/sf/812369 ), which
> attempts to implement shutdown based on gc, rather than the explicit
> clearing of modules. It would be good if that could be put to work;
> I don't know what undesirable side effects doing so would cause.
>

I will have a look.

> Short of that, I don't think Python needs to support explicit deletion
> of the encodings module from sys.modules when somebody still has a
> reference to the search function. Don't do that, then.

=)  Yeah.  As of this moment I am leaving __builtin__, exceptions,
encodings, codecs, encodings.utf_8, warnings, and sys.  I am deleting
all other modules after Py_Initialize finishes its thing.  I need to
do a security audit on all of those modules before I permanently let
them stick around (which is what I was hoping to avoid).  I am also
hoping make the sys module not be required to stay since it is only
there because of the amount of stuff that is put into the module
before its __dict__ is cached by the import machinery.

-Brett