[Python-Dev] module shutdown procedure (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Fri Jul 23 05:15:08 CEST 2010

Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Am 22.07.2010 13:29, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

Is it the reason why? With the new module creation API in 3.x, extension modules should be able to handle deletion of their own internal resources. Yes, but as Martin noted at the summit, nobody since went through all the extension modules and changed them to use a struct instead of globals.

And that's a necessary but likely not sufficient condition for the GC based module shutdown scheme to work. It really would take a huge amount of effort to make the idea fly.

That doesn't mean it is not worth doing. The current scheme is pretty ugly.

Neil

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