[Python-Dev] PEP 442 aftermath: module globals at shutdown (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Aug 1 17:11:49 CEST 2013


Le Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:03:03 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> a écrit :

Am 30.07.13 23:32, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > - it is held alive by a C extension: the main example is the locale > module, which is held alive by io and in turn keeps alive other > Python modules (such as collections or re).

If the locale module would use PEP 3121 (issue15662), this problem should go away.

Not really: I'm talking about the pure Python locale module. However, I've got another solution for this one (using weakrefs, unsurprisingly): http://bugs.python.org/issue18608

cheers

Antoine.



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