RFC: Proposal: Deterministic Object Destruction

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:37:34 -0500, Ned Batchelder wrote:

> On 3/4/18 7:37 AM, Ooomzay wrote:
>> On Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:23:07 UTC, Steven D'Aprano  wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> [This PEP] imposes enormous burdens on the maintainers of at least
>>> five interpreters (CPython, Stackless, Jython, IronPython, PyPy) all
>>> of which will need to be re-written to have RAII semantics guaranteed;
>> Not so:-  CPython, the reference interpreter, already implements the
>> required behaviour, as mentioned in the PEP.
> 
> Except for cycles.

And during interpreter shutdown.

-- 
Steve