[Python-Dev] Not able to do unregister a code

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jai Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am facing a memory leaking issue with codecs. I make my own ABC class and
> register it with codes.
> 
> import codecs
> codecs.register(ABC)
> 
> but I am not able to remove ABC from memory. Is there any alternative to do
> that.

The ABC codec search function gets added to the codec registry search
path list which currently cannot be accessed directly.

There is no API to unregister a codec search function, since deregistration
would break the codec cache used by the registry to speedup codec
lookup.

Why would you want to unregister a codec search function ?

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