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

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Sun Sep 21 06:06:45 EDT 2003


Armin Rigo wrote:

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Another question, what was the rationale for setting module globals to None instead of simply deleting them (and getting the expected AttributeErrors both at C and at Python level) ?

Or, given cyclic GC, why isn't it enough to clear sys.modules? In theory, shouldn't that make all modules (and thier globals) collectable unless there are threads hanging on to them?

Jim

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