[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2) (original) (raw)

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org
Sun Dec 21 01:15:30 CET 2008


skip at pobox.com wrote:

Steve> Unfortunately there are doubtless programs out there that do rely Steve> on actions being taken at shutdown. Indeed. I believe any code which calls atexit.register. Steve> Maybe os.exit() could be more widely advertised, though ... That would be os.exit(). Calling it avoids calls to exit functions registered with atexit.register(). I believe it is both safe, and reasonable programming practice for modules to register exit functions. Both the logging and multiprocessing modules call it. It's incumbent on the application programmer to know these details of the modules the app uses (perhaps indirectly) to know whether or not it's safe/wise to call os.exit().

You could call sys.exitfunc() just before os._exit().

-Andrew.



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