[Python-Dev] Silencing IO errors on del/dealloc?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> No. Trust me. It is not always possible to strengthen the
>> implementation. (At least not until we get rid of the "replace all
>> globals with None upon module deletion" rule.)
>
> We should do that.  Trying to do cleanup without globals sucks.  I
> updated Armin's patch that's attached to issue #812369.  If we could
> get some more people to bang on it then prehaps we can trust it
> enough to accept it.  If someone wants to test and needs help, give
> me a shout.

So how do you get destructors to run in that case? Or do you just not
run them? Then open files may not be closed and may not even see their
buffer flushed. I'm not happy about that.

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