[Python-ideas] Hooks into the IO system to intercept raw file reads/writes

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Well, there is a lot of I/O machinery that keeps itself alive unless you 
> explicitly close it. So __del__ is unlikely to be called until it's too 
> late (at the dreaded module teardown stage).

I thought we weren't doing module teardown any more?

-- 
Greg