Order of object cleanup at interpreter exit?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Rob W. W. Hooft <rob at hooft.net> wrote:
> I have noticed that this does not work if the __del__ method is called
> when the interpreter is exiting (i.e., when I am using a Robot() object
> in the __main__ module at the global scope). I get:

jason and michael have already pointed out how to
work around this.

for some background info, see:
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/cleanup.html

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