[Python-Dev] module shutdown procedure

[Neil Schemenauer]

Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 22.07.2010 13:29, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
>> Is it the reason why? With the new module creation API in 3.x, extension
>> modules should be able to handle deletion of their own internal
>> resources.
>
> Yes, but as Martin noted at the summit, nobody since went through all the
> extension modules and changed them to use a struct instead of globals.

And that's a necessary but likely not sufficient condition for the
GC based module shutdown scheme to work.  It really would take a
huge amount of effort to make the idea fly.

That doesn't mean it is not worth doing.  The current scheme is
pretty ugly.

  Neil