[Python-Dev] Fun with 2.3 shutdown (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Sep 19 01:37:49 EDT 2003

"Tim Peters" wrote When the Zope3 tests are run under Python 2.3, after the test runner ends we usually get treated to a long string of these things: """ Unhandled exception in thread started by Error in sys.excepthook: Original exception was: """

Yep. I remember mentioning these at the Melbourne sprint.

I'm not sure what it says about Python's shutdown strategy. If I find and fix a None-module-global problem in Condition.wait(), that's fine and probably helpful (in 2.3.1), but in the context of Zope3 the run() methods of these threads are going to trigger None-module-global problems of their own. That can also be fixed.

Hm. Is this serious enough a problem to hold off 2.3.1 until it's fixed? My feeling is "no", because it only affects Z3 developers, and they're hardened to random pain by now, and it's also just a shutdown glitch.

On the other hand, making the Z3 shutdown code os.kill(os.getpid(), 9) would also make the messages go away ;)

Anthony

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