[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit EuroPython 2010
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jul 22 14:00:46 CEST 2010
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:51:57 +0100
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
> That's an option. I just remember Tim bringing up something about that
> approach that didn't quite work as a complete replacement for __del__.
>
> Basically the whole setting a module's globals to None was done before gc
> came into the language. Now that it's there it seems that it might work to
> simply let gc clean up the module itself.
There is a patch at http://bugs.python.org/issue812369 for GC-based
module shutdown, but it doesn't actually remove the setting of module
globals to None. I think further testing and experimentation would be
required to validate it.
Regards
Antoine.
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