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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 31 03:30:58 CEST 2013


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

- it is held alive through builtins: the site module patches builtins with additional objects, which themselves keep references to the site module's globals,

The module probably should stay alive in that case, since it's still accessible via those patched builtins.

-- Greg



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